On Mastodon, Cindy Weinstein posted a quotation from Susan Sontag's 1966 essay "Against Interpretation": “The earliest experience of art must have been that it was incantatory.” She then asked others what their earliest incantatory experience was. My response was from the same era as Sontag's essay: It was either “Mr. Tambourine Man” (Bob Dylan’s original 1965 version) or “Suzanne” (Judy Collins’s 1966 version), though perhaps it was actually “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” or “Strawberry Fields Forever” (original 1967 versions by The Beatles). All of those songs began to draw me into the magic of words and music (along with Maurice Sendak's 1963 picture book "Where the Wild Things Are"). (Andrew Shields, #111words, 5 January 2026)