#531 fugue

fugue- a musical form consisting essentially of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below the continuing first statement; in psychiatry a dreamlike altered state of consciousness, lasting from a few hours to several days, duing which a person loses his memory for his previous lifeand often wanders away from home

C16 from French, from Italian fuga, from Latin: a running away, flight

And knowing what a fugue is can make you fall in love with Bach.

The reasons for his fugue are mysterious, and they need to stay that way for at least half of the novel.

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