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CLASSICAL
Q: In your criticism, a fundamental distinction you seem to be very interested in is that between metaphor and metonymy, and you characterize classical literature as essentially metonymic, and modernist literature as metaphoric. Could you fit your own work into this paradigm?
Ennio Morricon's score is exotic, penetrating and mellifluous, blending the percussive sounds of the Indian drums with the classical strands of the violin and orchestra to enhance the sensuality that this movie conveys.
"I had architecture and archaeology heavily on my mind. I was a classics student, and philology, in the sense that the rest of Europe used the word, was strongly there. I liked source material; I liked asking the question. I liked looking for contradictions of accepted views, and it was...
"A harpsichord maker convinced me that the noise I was hearing from the modern harpsichord I owned, colorful and varied though it was, was only an apology for the fact that no one sound on that instrument was a classical sound. He actually explained to me why, sitting at eighteenth...