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Letter "F" » fugue
«One could probably liken the task of improvising a six-part fugue to the playing of sixty simultaneous blindfold games of chess, and winning them all»
Author: Douglas Hofstadter
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blindfold, blindfolded, chess, chess game, fugue, fugues, improvise, improvised, improvising, liken, simultaneous
«In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: ''Is there someone new?''»
«There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.»
«There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.»
Author: Edward Hoagland
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absorbing, adolescence, fugue, fugues, height, In the City, middle age, retrenchment, retrenchments, sullen, The City
«In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art.»
«The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Business
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fugue, fugues, prophesying
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