November 6, 2003

Quixotic Inventions

To the Editor:

Re ''Ideas Unlimited, Built to Order'' (Oct. 30), in which some prominent people suggested what they would like to see invented:

How curious that the musician Moby, of all people, wants recreational drugs that are both nontoxic and nonaddictive. For eons mankind has been getting healthy highs from music. For many, what finer transcendence could one expect than that obtained by submitting oneself to the spells wrought by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, etc.?

The benefits accrue: under the influence of my 22-year-old son, this 60-year-old has recently developed a fascination with Moby's beautifully hypnotic compositions; indeed, I find I'm rather addicted to them.

Robert A. Baron
New Rochelle, N.Y.
 

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