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and is a better, more whole person. The music that plays out The
World of Apu, as Apu carries off his son on his shoulders to a new
life together, expresses this complex of emotions: the basic notes
are recognisable as those of the Apu–Aparna theme last heard
in the carriage in their final hours together, but now they have
acquired a nobility and serenity of emotion more reminiscent of
a hymn.
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