Though instead of saying that every artist “selects” one of these melodies, perhaps it is better to say that every artist is configured, by way of their talent, to be able to give expression to one. For each true artist is made aware, I think, through the doing of their work, of something like an unwittingness in their soul, and an inevitability in that which they produce, as if it was not they alone in whom these things find the language of their embodiment, but them together with some separate person or idea that, by way of a kind of spiritual union (evidence for which exists only in the artist’s feelings), merged with the artist during the time when their personality and aesthetic sense were forming.