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The "backlash" view: "We're all free agents in this noncoercive class system, and... worrying about the problems faces by workers is yet another deluded affectation of the blue-state rich... What divides Americans is authenticity, not something hard and ugly like economics."

a counterargument to Milton "who cares if you listen" "music doesn't care about your feelings" Babbitt

"assuming there's a medium for the sound waves to propagate through, namely air"

at times the over-elaboration of variables as a means of fulfilling some idea of scientific precision is unintentionally funny and more often simply tedious

musical objects as describing systems (imperfect, imprinting)

limited configurations of continuous variability

"I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear."

there is a kind of risky combination of overly technical or an atomized way of constructing a scene/world which ends in a punctuation of an interjection or desperate gasp to be allowed to feel or be heard

"One cannot step twice into the same river"—What assumptions or values are behind the desire to "freeze" a work as a contained, repeatable entity made up of sounds?

"The nineteenth century, pregnant with the theory of evolution, has moreover created in is the habit of losing sight of the individual in the species"

"We are often too much on evidence as it is, and in spite of our vanity even self-regard is apt to become monotonous."

their outward accessories

"Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others."

"Isn't that why you don't cheat or steal—because it's ugly?"