He's rigged a tiny cassette player with a small set of foam earphones to listen to demo tapes and rough mixes. Occasionally he'll hand the device to Mindy, wanting her opinion, and each time, the experience of music pouring directly against her eardrums - hers alone - is a shock that makes her eyes well up; the privacy of it, the way it transforms her surroundings into a golden montage, as if she were looking back on this lark in Africa with Lou from some distant future.Jennifer Egan
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When Mindy first encounters Lou's cassette player, she is appalled by it. She sees it as a form of torture and thinks that Lou has gone insane. However, after she realizes its usefulness and realizes that Lou needs it to listen to music, Mindy begins listening to the music and falls in love with it.
Source: A Visit From The Goon Squad
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