I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.
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What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?
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William Gaddis (9)
Birth: | 29th December, 1922 |
Death: | 16th December, 1998 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist |
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