If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

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So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?

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The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

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By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

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Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?

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I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.

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Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

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What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?

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This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

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Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

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