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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
The majority of compositions for string quartet fall into the category of absolute music, meaning that there is not content in the representational sense. To criticize a string quartet composer for not being a positive thinker would therefore be ridiculous, since no specific manifestation of positive thinking may be deduced from absolute music.
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And you thought that would go without saying?!?
You do realize the point of an analogy is to make things EASIER to understand, right?
Show of hands from the crowd, please: Who got that?
Anythewho, on the point of authors and their politics, I'm guessing Ayn Rand would have preferred that the folks who reviewed "Atlas Shrugged" agreed with you.
I would not
fault someone for enjoying a writer despite disagreeing with their politics, but it's certainly understandable if they don't. And while I'm not equipped to disagree with you about emotional reflection in string quarter music (though as an artist of sorts, I find it hard to believe that there is none), I can state with certainty that a writer's politics IS often reflected in their fiction, overtly or not.
ApK