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Sound and vision
衛報的文章，透過音樂瞭解Said 的思想。好玩。

He also knew how to distinguish clearly between power and force, which constituted one of the main ideas of his struggle. He knew quite well that, in music, force is not power, something that many of the world’s political leaders do not perceive. The difference between power and force is equivalent to the difference between volume and intensity in music. When one says to a musician, “You are not playing intensely enough”, his first reaction is to play louder. And it is exactly the opposite: the lower the volume, the greater the need for intensity, and the greater the volume, the greater the need for a calm force in the sound.