re "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)

...Where to go?  Back in the other direction and
destroy the cradle of Western civilization:

[...] Ms Amin said: "The Americans were supposed to
protect the museum. If they had just one tank and two
soldiers nothing like this would have happened. I hold
the American troops responsible." She added: "They
know that this is a museum. They protect oil
ministries but not the cultural heritage." [...] 

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