Emilie and Voltaire

I've just picked up a book and it's the most exciting thing ever. It's about Emilie and Voltaire and what they achieve together. It's a lovely read and really exciting to see ideas coalesce and form, the slow patient revealing of how the world might work. It's academic work and it's much more exciting than any music I've listened to recently. I wonder if I'm in the wrong job.

To seek to understand, to be more at ease with their world, to have a deeper connection. To find new things, to feel like me. Surely I can find a way to do this through musical work too.