But Bessard was almost immediately overruled by City of Boerne . Bessard actually came close to eliminating the loyalty oath entirely, because under other precedents, someone who claimed a religious objection would likely not have been required to provide much more detail. Except that that's a complete end-run around the purpose of the RFRA, which was to create special privileges or exemptions based on religious beliefs and not simply based on sincere beliefs. Patents I wrote a lot on patents to Biella. So do songs.
Songs are compensatory.
When a singer asks, Why did you do this to me, why did you break my heart . . . And when a song is good, a standard, we recognize it as expressing a truth. Like a formula, it can apply to everyone, not just the singer. This passage actually has relatively little to do with the rest of the book, although it does suggest a connection between a couple of themes which do show up repeatedly.