A Sudden Rush

The music went on and on until it reached a song whose notes and words brought back in a sudden rush all of the old feelings... Unhappily I struck out to change the song to another, any other, as though it were urgent. Accidentally I hit the same song again the first time. After that I went to La Finforletta, a lovely sad song, and the feelings receded again, and looking back are all but incomprehensible. But it frightened me how quickly they came forward, after so many months, as easily as opening a jar of vanilla and letting the scent pervade the room...