Strings and Pearls
July 26, 2026
Scene from the film Begin Again.
Dan: That’s what I love about music.
Gretta: What?
Dan: One of the most banal scenes is suddenly invested with so much meaning, you know? All these banalities, they’re suddenly turned into these… these beautiful, effervescent pearls. From music.
Dan: I’ve got to say, as I’ve gotten older, these pearls are just… becoming increasingly more and more rare to me.
Gretta: More string than pearls?
Dan: Yeah. You’ve got to travel over a lot more string to get to the pearls. This moment is a pearl, Gretta.
Gretta: It sort of is, isn’t it?
Dan: All this has been a pearl.