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“In Antwerp he asks the truck drivers but in vain. The day starts fading & they, without being trapped by retrospective, exert no influence upon judgements of distance. He walks away   from them. All totalitarian dystopias, in …”

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A diminished fourth is an interval that has

four half steps. A diminished interval has

one less half step than a perfect interval. Any

perfect interval made larger by one half step

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