# On Repeat Chapter 3 **Opening (not a real abstract):** Attention, Temporality, and Music that Repeats Itself Poetry and Eloquence, it has accordingly been often observed, produce their effect always by a connected variety and succession of different thoughts and ideas: but Music frequently produces its effects by a repetition of the same idea; and the same sense expressed in the same, or nearly the same, combination of sounds, though at first perhaps it may make scarce any impression upon us, yet, by being repeated again and again, it comes at last gradually, and by little and little, to move, to agitate, and to transport us. —Adam Smith, 1795 **Authors:** [[Attention, Temporality, and]]