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In the Twilight Zone of Sound

By PETER MONAGHAN

San Diego
A short phrase of speech in Diana Deutsch's mellifluous voice, with its faded English accent, loops over and over from the loudspeakers in her sparse, windowless sound studio.

"Sometimes behave so strangely," comes the phrase.

"Sometimes behave so strangely."

And, strangely, after only a few repetitions, a...

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