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  1. Aug 2024
    1. Perhaps she was the lucky one afterall. Think of the unhappy souls inside, who see the record, worryabout scratches, and most of all worry about whether they are getting it, whether they are bona fide music lovers. What is the bestway to hear Beethoven: sitting in a proper silence around the Capehart or eavesdropping from an azalea bush

      The students let the concept of the music and of Beethoven dominate their thinking, instead of actually thinking about the music, the individual experience that could be seen. Seeing the tour and not the canyon.

    2. Seeing the canyon underapproved circumstances is seeing the symbolic complex head on.The thing is no longer the thing as it confronted the Spaniard; it israther that which has already been formulated-by picture postcard, geography book, tourist folders, and the words Grand Canyon

      When someone goes on a tour of the Grand Canyon, what they are lead to mentally engage in is not the actual site, but what idea they and everyone else on the tour has about the site. They see not the actual site, but the assumptions and propaganda that they have collected in their own head.