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“Why do you think it’s funny?” I asked. “Well, funny the way music can be funny, I suppose,” he replied. “Music is funny?” “Not all music, Sam. But a scherzo is funny, I think it’s safe to say. They wouldn’t call it that otherwise.” He liked to smuggle in a premise. In this case, that language carves up the world at the joints, that language has some kind of authority. Because it’s venerable? Because many hands were in at the making of it? …
摘自《哈泼斯杂志》(Harper's Magazine)第352卷 第2111期 · 2026年4月刊,Caleb Crain。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。