 In this respect it is at the opposite pole of the language of painting. A painting can portray someone as beautiful, lovable, etc. but it cannot say who, if anybody, loves this person. Music, one might say, is always intransitive and in the first person;...  Rebuilding Babel: The Translations of W.H. Auden - Seite 85von Nirmal Dass - 1993 - 194 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
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...whom or what I love, you, God, or the decimal system. In this respect it is at the opposite pole of the language of painting. A painting can portray someone...painter mean what he says, or is he just pretending?" (WH Auden, Secondary Worlds [New York: Random House, 1968] , 91). Stravinsky wishes to remove still... | |
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