title: Sacred and Profane a Novel of the Life and Times of Mozart
author:  David Weiss 
description: "A very readable book which portrays the human being behind the music, increasing our love of both." Yehudi Menuhin, from inside cover.
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  # Mozart: A Fantasy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Elia Wilkinson Peattie
  
  
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  WHEN the winds of the morning were first loosed by God, they leaped like
  hounds from the leash, harking
  
  
  through the spaces between the worlds in search of the Things That Are. In
  their adventurings they came upon All
  
  
  Things, — stars that were blue as forged steel, those red as blood, the ringed
  worlds, the crimson and the yellow
  
  
  suns in their solitudes, scintillant seas of star dust, the reservoirs of
  man's knowledge; the amazing chaos of the
  
  
  Things That Were Yet to Be.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Also they came upon the place of the Birth of Waters; and a very strange place
  of great dimness, where was only
  
  
  the Silence of Nothingness. There, huddling in the chill was a lair of
  monstrous creatures, Discords, waiting for the
  
  
  chiding of human beings that they might find a medium for their voices. They
  writhed the