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[Mark Kohut]

On p. 713, in his offhand, oblique narrator saying kind of way, TRP gives us this
on Romanticism and Romance (two senses of) in this 
 
Romance known as Against the Day: Cyprian hears, either inside of outside his head (!!)
the Adagio from the Mozart Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488. "It might have been prophetic
had he been listening. This was a period in human emotion when "romance' had slipped into
an inexpensive subfusc of self-awareness, unnaturally heightening the effect of the outmoded
pastels peeping from beneath, as if in some stylistic acknowledgment of the great trembling
that showed through, now and then, to some more than others, of a hateful future nearly
at hand and inescapable. But many were as likely to misinterpret the deep signals as physical symptoms......
....'as nerves"....as "romance".....
 
Take THAT, Romantics. Take THAT Harold Bloom.