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Originally Posted by David
We all know Beethoven, whether we know Beethoven or not.
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True, that. My oldest sister had the 12" single of 'A Fifth Of Beethoven' by some disco group around 1977 or '78. Oh, and I saw a movie once where these poor Jewish women prisoners had to play Beethoven for the SS guards at Auschwitz. It was very harrowing.
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Originally Posted by David
I got that word from Roger Kimball, editor of The New Criterion, who used it in the 1990s to characterize deconstruction.
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Thanks! (Note to self: hit the NY Public Library and try to read a Derrida essay)