Agape Agape - pg. 49

try to educate them did they buy those "Educator" piano rolls teach them to play with their hands no, went right on discovering their unsuspected talent playing with their feet here's Flaubert yes, "The entire dream of democracy" he says, "is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity." You want the essence of elitism there he was, his idea of art that "the artist must no more appear in his work than God does in nature, that the artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed" good God, the rate things change a generation lasts four days what posterity? Everywhere present and nowhere visible leads him right into the embrace of the death of the author whose intention have no connection with the meaning of the text which is indeterminate anyway,