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James Tobin <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:53:14 -0500
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Tim Mahon wonders who said:

>   "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is
>   impossible to be silent."

I don't know, but it was surely later than 1921 and by someone familiar
with the final oracular saying of Wittgenstein's Tractatus, on which this
is word play.

Jim Tobin

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