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Keller was citing Mahler’s Third Symphony, which contrasts its scherzo with the scherzo’s historical forerunner, the courtly minuet.

Conversely, giving a summary of these books is like producing a Mahler medley, condensing periphrastic brass into a brief fanfare

Just as Kraus’s densely argued texts deplore the mechanization of verse, so Franzen’s unstructured exegeses attempt to summon a similar abhorrence of the digitization of the novel.

Maybe Leopardi’s point is that for some things, for some dimidiate things, “happiness” is plain “living”?

“The Star-Spangled Banner,” by contrast, is bombastic anacreontic macaronic pseudomartial beer hall music.