Beethoven: deny the mechanisms of linear time
- So I began to wonder about the reason for this: why Beethoven, heroic conqueror of new musical territory, suddenly showed such a radical involution, such an obsessive project of painstaking reconsideration of limited materials; (...) why he would fall in love with this way (...) of telling the same story over and over again; (...) - And it is a mystery, he continued: why this titan would resolutely invert the sponsored Western conception of progress as expansion: why he would defy our capital, Faustian, myth of more , to become so self-reflective, so damned introspective, (...) so circumscribed: trying to generate the infinite within a finite area; it is as if he had turned against the progressive notion of history and had thereby set out to deny the mechanisms of linear time... Evan Dara, "The Lost Notebook", pp. 49-50 (edited by Aurora Publishers) Selected excerpt by Elliv Lem, Associate Professor at the University of Seville, Department of Ancestral Symbology, Cryptogra...