Theodore Sturgeon: "The Music," "Scars," and "Die, Maestro, Die!"

Here at MPorcius Fiction Log we are reading a 1965 edition of the 1953 collection E Pluribus Unicorn by Theodore Sturgeon, the man who brought you such bizarre utopian visions as "If All Men Were Brothers Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?", "The Skills of Xanadu," and "...And Now the News," as well as those wacky tales of alien invasion, "Make Room for Me" and "The Incubi of Parallel X." Yesterday we read three stories from E Pluribus Unicorn, one about two virgins, one good, one evil; one about a superior race of sexless women; and one about two unattractive people finding love against the odds thanks to the intervention of a flying saucer. Who can guess what Ted has in store for us today in "The Music," "Scars," and "Die, Maestro, Die!"? You can read along at a scan of a copy of the very edition I am reading at this link."The Music" (1953)This little thing, one and a half pages, seems to have made its debut in E Pluribus Unicorn. It is a sort of literary exercise and a slightly…