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I am sorry Jurgen Habermas GUIDE TO (germy) KULTUR by a very expertist expert from Canaduckia:

(people who may have not been mentioned on the German page, or maybe they were)

Bach

Mozart

Beethoven

Wagner, if you insist

Schoenberg & friends

Carl Orff. O FORTUNA!!!

Karlheinz Stockhausen (d. 2007, RIP). My mother saw him live, years ago, performing keyboard music. I radiated jealousy; she said it was all bleeps and blops to her. The universe is unfair.

Krafterk. Wir fahren auf der Autobahn.

Rammstein. We all live in America. We totally do.

Jurgen Habermas, who is apparently my ex-boyfriend, or so I used to joke to Margaret Atwood 2.2 before I hit her in the face and she stole my poetry book. Something to that effect. See too_many_breakups.

I ship Hannah Arendt x Theodor Adorno. (They lived in America. Rammstein was right.)

Freud and Jung, who invented modern psychology and/or set psychology back 100 years.

Thomas Mann

Bernard Schlink (sp?) not for The Reader but the book based on The Odyssey

Hegel, the thesis antithesis synthesis guy

Karl Marx, who wasn't responsible for Stalin

Freddy Nietzsche, who sure as hell wasn't responsible for Hitler

More music! The Strauss family. Thus spake Zarathustra: dum dum dum DA-DUM.

Why aren't there more women on here?

Oh right! Women are not real. Or they don't do cool stuff with music or something. Wait, what about Ezra Pound's girlfriend, revived Vivaldi and all? Olga Rudge? Sounds German... No, also American. Thanks Google.

THE TOTAL PAIDEUMA IS (Ooh, a Greek word. Ezra Pound was more multicultural but James Joyce was less racist. Yay for being less racist): WE ALL LIVE IN AMERICA.
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epitome of incomprehensibility Not German, but:

EoI's brother: What does ineluctable modality of the visible mean?

EoI: Ineluctable modality of the visible means never having to say you're sorry.

(With er, Habermas, I did pass up on the opportunity for a fight. Once he pointed out a mistake in an email I'd written, where I'd tried to write something in German, and I resisted the cheesy and/or blatantly racist temptation to call him a grammar nazi. I dunno whether he'd have been horrified or amused. And now there's an Inglourious Basterds parody on YouTube with a literal Grammar Nazi. But we left it at an amicable irrevocable; he was going back to Europe.)

Jurgen Habermas wrote a book called The Pragmatics of Communication or sth. - I think that was the joke? And if Canucks come from somewhere they must come from Canaduckia? Right, right.

Fuck pragmatics of communication. Ca ne marche jamais. When I'm in a happier mood maybe I'll do a list of Canadian composers...
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