Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

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• Paul de Man:

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• Dave Brubeck:

  It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

• Dave Brubeck:

  There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play whi

• Dave Brubeck:

  And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You ca

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