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Jake Imber's avatar

Thanks. It seems to me that one thing an honest broker does is be forthright about how he sees his role, so this essay is another manifestation of honest-broker-ism. Well done. And what a fascinating and mysterious backstory.

Your observations about pleasure and the Clement Greenberg trap seems to me to summarize the problem of modernism, which values novelty above all else. There's little that's inherently valuable about novelty. I guess it's pleasing to be surprised, but that's a pretty evanescent condition, especially compared to beauty, truth, or transcendence.

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Benjamin Yeoh's avatar

Did your honest broker ever come back and ask for a favour ? Would have been some amazing ellipsis if that favour was music related.

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