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Real presences 1989 presence in another always entails approximation. The seeming paradox of a necessary possibility is, very precisely, that which the poem, the painting, the musical composition are at liberty to explore and to enact. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Reading steiner always makes one feel seriously undereducated and one must be impressed by his dazzling erudition. The fallingshort is a guarantor of the experienced otherness, the freedom to be or not be play the sonata or not.
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