shadows of echoes of memories of songs

I am taking the time to respond to this instead of doing the quite interesting font-reading coding I'd decided I should do today. To drive a me from writing code to writing comments is no mean feat of persuasion (though, admittedly, had I been in fiction-writing mode instead of code-writing mode it might've been harder, as both fiction and comments tend to end up with vaguely human-readable and seem to be harder to switch between).