The delivery mechanism is incidental.
Noel has just tried to... blah blah blah
The thing to gather from Noel's arguments is that he is a champion of progress, that he thinks electronic instruments are just as good (maybe even better) than real pipe organs, and that the piano is basically a better version of harpsichord. That is definitely what he thinks, and what he thinks the rest of us should think too.
Something of this implication is fixed in the book’s dictatorial tone, which is much its most striking feature. Out of a lifetime of reading, I can recall no other book in which a tone of overriding arrogance was so implacably sustained. Its shrillness is without reprieve. Its dogmatism is without appeal. . . . From almost any page . . . a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: " To the gas chambers — go!" The same inflexibly self-righteous stance results, too (in the total absence of any saving humor), in odd extravagances of inflection and gesture
Jackson has high standards but everyone can't meet them.
Jackson has high standards but everyone can't meet them. We are not all fortunate to be in his surroundings in Texas. Some of us are stuck with oompa loompas and yahoos.
Every single aspect of this work is like this. Everyone makes choices based on the local situation, but the choices don't change the height of the standards
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