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"I excerpt the conclusion of Pierre Boulez’s infamous elegy to Schoenberg below..."

Just jumped to the top of my time-travel bucket list.

"Behold! here's nothing but sad mourning lines,
So that my verse agreeth with his times."

--1672 Ovid

"...there is nothing unusual about fires in Los Angeles, which is, after all, a desert city with only two distinct seasons: one beginning in January and lasting three or four months, during which storms come in from the northern Pacific and it rains—often an inch every two or three hours, and sometimes, in some places, an inch a minute—and one lasting eight or nine months, during which it burns, or gets ready to burn."