"We sometimes forget that human invention can also……" — Andrew O'Hagan
"We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on."
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Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about…
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Detach from emotions and desires; get rid of any fixations.
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I have had death threats from people with fixations.
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