The hint
He did not say music adorns life. He said its absence invalidates it. Some frequencies are load-bearing. The song is structure, not ornament. Remove it and the architecture does not mourn. It falls.
The cipher
13 · 1 · 4 · 18 · 9 · 7 · 1 · 12
— Friedrich Nietzsche · Twilight of the Idols · 1889
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