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Barbara Misztal • Theories Of Social Remembering (Theorizing Society)
“Beethoven’s ‘Archduke Trio’.”
Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
And so on and so forth. Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.
Milan Kundera • The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Tenor Madness,”
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
Tomas turned off the radio and said, “Every country has its secret police. But a secret police that broadcasts its tapes over the radio—there’s something that could happen only in Prague, something absolutely without precedent!”
Milan Kundera • The Unbearable Lightness of Being
She was thinking of the days of Johann Sebastian Bach, when music was like a rose blooming on a boundless snow-covered plain of silence.
Milan Kundera • The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“ I’d like to go away somewhere, but when it gets dark I’m afraid of not finding the way home again. In the morning there’s a dense fog and then everything is so quiet. Every day I do the same work, and every morning the place is a mess again. There’s never any end to it. I really wish I were dead. ”
ECW Press • A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
It follows, then, that the true opponent of totalitarian kitsch is the person who asks questions.