Monday, October 28, 2013

TB on rhetoric...

The old saying is that "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture," which as a long rhetorical thorn was irresistible to me as a young person.  I recognize it now for its myopia and its cowardice.  That's not to say that any writer can write about music; it is entirely possible, and statistically likely, to fail.  But somebody's gonna fucking dance about architecture one of these days, they will, and my greatest fear that I won't recognize it when it happens.

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