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One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.



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Why wait for a call when you have a command?



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Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.



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