#60 PAShTROCh: Ragtime
“Small clear chords hung in the air like flowers. The melodies were like bouquets. There seemed to be no other possibilities for life than those delineated by the music.”
— Description of Coalhouse Porter, Jr., the main character in E. L. Doctorow’s novel, Ragtime, sitting down to play Joplin’s “Wall Street Rag”