Frank on the left, Nicolas on the right. (Yes, they were pals.)
From Nicolas Slonimsky's bio, "Perfect Pitch":
"I mumbled the lines from Virgils's Aeneid, 'Forsan et haed olim meminisse iuvabit' ('parhaps even this will some day be remembered with pleasure'). The line refers to the descent into Hades. I also clung tenaciously to my favourite formula of William James, that correlated the strength of remembrance with time elapsed since the event: M=P/T. P in the equation can stand either for Pleasure or Pain, as the case might be. The factor M (for Memory) is directly proportionate to P. The element T (for Time) is in inverse ratio to M; the farther the event recedes in memory, the less painful, (pleasurable), it becomes."
