“Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand.”

—  George Steiner

"In a Post-Culture".
In Bluebeard's Castle (1971)

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