GRGR(20) "Young Fool"

[jporter]

MP:

>It is interesting that you mention Saussure.  His insistance that
>language should be holistically rather than atomistically is actually
>similar to that of the twelve tone composers, I believe.  Both language
>and music are CREATED atomistically,

[snip, nicely articulated]

>The freedom he speaks of is the freedom to use more of the available
>pitch classes as on (or in) the piano.  The thought has not yet
>occurred to him that there may be something beyond that which has been
>passed down a few centuries.

Like the habit of avoiding recognition of something or someone that has
been passed over, which yet persists, somehow, surreptitiously, in the very
habit of avoidance... Latent, not so much as an antithesis as an excluded
middle- beneath acceptable discourse- waiting in preterition for a chance
to resurface.

jody