"what kind of myth that's going to make in a thousand years?"

[pynchonoid]

This rainy morning, in the quiet, it seems that
Gustav's German Dialectic has come to its end. He has
just had the word, all the way from Vienna along some
musicians' grapevine, that Anton Webern is dead. "Shot
in May, by the Americans. Senseless, accidental if you
believe in accidents--some mess cook from North
Carolina, some late draftee with a.45 he hardly knew
how to use, too late for WW II, but not for Webern.
The excuse for raiding the house was that Webern's
brother was in the black market. Who isn't? Do you
know what kind of myth that's going to make in a
thousand years? The young barbarians coming in to
murder the Last European, standing at the far end of
what'd been going on since Bach, an expansion of
music's polymorphous perversity till all notes were
truly equal at last....Where was there to go after
Webern? (GR 440-41)

 
Iraq National Museum Treasures Plundered 
Sat Apr 12, 6:04 PM ET
By HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press Writer 

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The famed Iraq (news - web sites)
National Museum, home of extraordinary Babylonian,
Sumerian and Assyrian collections and rare Islamic
texts, sat empty Saturday — except for shattered glass
display cases and cracked pottery bowls that littered
the floor. [...] Gone were irreplaceable
archaeological treasures from the Cradle of
Civilization.   [...]  the museum's most famous
holding may have been tablets with Hammurabi's Code —
one of mankind's earliest codes of law. [...] the Ram
in the Thicket from Ur, a statue representing a deity
from 2600 BC — are no doubt gone, perhaps forever, he
said.  [...] "These are the foundational cornerstones
of Western civilization," Russell said, and are
literally priceless — which he said will not prevent
them from finding a price on the black market. [...]
The Americans could have prevented the looting, agreed
Patty Gerstenblith, a professor at DePaul School of
Law in Chicago who helped circulate a petition before
the war, urging that care be taken to protect Iraqi
antiquities. "It was completely inexcusable and
avoidable," she said. [...] 

<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=540&e=8&u=/ap/20030412/ap_on_re_mi_ea/war_plundered_treasures_7>

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