[Maybe not color, but for the first time in ages, he has a paintbrush in his hand.]

I often say the same of Wagner, but Wagner isn't so...primal. Wagner is cerebral, elevated, and dramatic, but not...living.

[Is that what's been missing? Dorian has reached for greater and greater heights of profundity, imagination, rarity, spirituality, enlightenment. What has he become in this long pursuit?

Beautiful and dead. A perfect, unchanging portrait of yourself.

His gaze falls on the cassette player again.]

How much of this music do you have?