I was partially surprised by how surprised I was by this realization. I’d taken Intro to English Language. I’m aware of the hypothesis that how we talk about things shapes what we talk about. Yet up until this point, I had never thought of compositional process as having such a strong effect on compositional thought. But I suppose as Admiral Kirk said, “Well, now you have something new to think about.”
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Two Conflicting Views on Influence
“After all,” says Harrison Birtwistle, “we all come from somewhere: we don’t invent it for ourselves; we don’t come from the moon.”
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