That's what Ernest Hemingway had to say about circuses, and after researching images to accompany this week's fiction piece, "The Musical Brain," by César Aira, I'm with Papa.

In 2009, Bublé was featured in the CTV television movie My Musical Brain with neuroscientist and writer Daniel Levitin, based on Levitin's bestselling book This Is Your Brain On Music.

Q. & A.: Willing Davidson talks to Chris Andrews, the translator of "The Musical Brain."

The story that appears in the magazine this week, César Aira's "The Musical Brain," was translated into English by Chris Andrews.

Two documentary films were based on that book, "The Music Instinct" (2009, PBS), which Levitin co-hosted with Bobby McFerrin, and "The Musical Brain" (2009, CTV/National Geographic Television) which he co-hosted with Sting.

The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature (Dutton/Penguin 2008) debuted on the Canadian and the New York Times bestseller lists, and was named by the Boston Herald and by Seed Magazine as one of the best books of 2008; it was also nominated for the World Technology Awards.

Toronto documentary producer Vanessa Dylyn, who was producing a film called The Musical Brain, featuring neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, approached Sting about participating in the film.

Title: The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature.