/lit/ - Literature

>>17467222
Nonsense, egalitarianism was never ever the objective of the ruling class. That's something they use to cloak their naked greed and racketeering. They have sucked up enough wealth to sustain their dynasties for dozens of generations to come all at the expense of the working and poor who will be left with a rotting husk of a planet. The trends are very clear. Wealth extraction on an international scale by an entire class of people, further isolation within well guarded pockets by that class and the promotion of superstition, obedience and divisive identity within the proletariat.

They merely use the language of egalitarianism and democracy when they can turn it towards justifying the obliteration of these things.

>>16311955
>I suspect you lack both the knowledge of English and of harmony to demonstrate it.
I can try, but my argument really has nothing to do with music theory, but rather a theory of music.
It is the same relation between things, rather than entities in isolation. The notes alone, mean nothing: the tension between them, and the silence with which they live in reciprocal indebtedness, are everything. Maybe Walter Pater is right, and all art aspires towards the condition of music. Indeed musical phrases can act like the crudest of metaphors, as in generalized rising, falling, tension and release. Expectations and either the subverting or the confirming of them. Thus it can ONLY be subjectively processed. If there is a sentence or paragraph that evokes a feeling similar to OP's beethoven fragment, then it is something different for each individual. And the only correct way to answer the question of what truly is the only thing that evokes the same response in everyone, of this particular moment, is to say that it is itself and only that.

My subjective answer though, is my second reread of Stoner, when William sees Edith for the first time. I refuse to explain it any further.

>>15624246
Nothing of value was lost

Do you ever feel like youre living in a thomas pynchon rough draft???
>the guy killed in minneapolis buy former co-worker whos a cop, in the past moonlighted as pornstar
>every DNC candidate going on the "breakfast club", run by a swarthy man named charlegmegne who asks very normal reasonable questions an actual person would ask and has political candidates have autistic meltdowns harder than asking about magazines or the price of milk
>all during a mass international pandemic hitting the US the most with the virus spread around by yuppies and leisure class idiots on cruise ships and traveling around
>virus family happens to share name with best selling mexican beer