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 | 'There is something in the consciousness of the literati that cannot stand the notion of someone's moral authority. They resign themselves to the existence of a First Party Secretary, or of a Fuhrer, as to a necessary evil, but they would eagerly question a prophet. This is so, presumably, because being told that you are a slave is less disheartening than being told that morally you are a zero. After all, a fallen dog shouldn't be kicked. However, a prophet kicks the fallen dog not to finish it off but to get it back on its feet. The resistance to those kicks, the questions of a writer's assertions and charges, come not from the desire for truth but from the intellectual smugness of slavery. All the worse, then, for the literati when the authority is not only moral but also cultural - as it was in Nadezhda Mandelstam's case.'
Joseph Brodsky, 'Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980): An Obituary' |
| You might have tried to accommodate Ligeti. Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano. Violin Concerto. Musica ricercata - 'a knife in Stalin's heart'. |
| You might have tried to accommodate The Hairstyle of the Devil by Momus. |
| Anybody who hasn't see Andrea Arnold's film Fish Tank yet - get it watched. It's out on DVD in January. Amazing. |
