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Read the excerpt from Billy Collins’s “Man Listening to Disc.”

And if any of you are curious
about where this aggregation,
this whole battery-powered crew,
is headed, let us just say
that the real center of the universe,

the only true point of view,
is full of the hope that he,
the hub of the cosmos
with his hair blown sideways,
will eventually make it all the way downtown.

What message does Collins convey in this excerpt?
Working downtown can be challenging.
Music is a positive distraction to the routine of daily life.
Curious people believe the world revolves around music.
High volume is much better than low volume.

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Curious people believe the world revolves around music.

Collins calls the listener (and the battery-powered radios) “the real center of the universe” and pictures the singer as “the hub of the cosmos,” showing how listeners make music the focal point of their world.