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“Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.”
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“Uw brief uit Siwa viel op mijn grauwe leven neer, als een rozeblaadje op het oppervlak van een troebele beek.”
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“The lesson for this Round, as we shall hear time and again, is that each generation inhabits a different acoustic universe, constituted by different musics and memories of sound, by different thicknesses of walls and densities of traffic, by different means of manufacture and broadcast, by different diets and ear-damaging diseases, by different proportions and preponderances of metal rattling in kitchens, clanging on the streets, or ringing in the ( differently polluted) air above.”
― Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & Beyond
― Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & Beyond
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