> "Simple" desire to get your hands, for example, on some hand-written
> Bach scores?
>
> I don't get it. Do you hope listening to Bach while holding such a
> thing in your possession would make his music, the music, sound
> differently? Feel differently?
I can't explain it myself, but when I pull out the cheap paperback book once owned by one of my favorite writers and look at his signature in the front, I feel close to him.
No, it's not rational, and neither am I, necessarily,
John A