Mozartian in spite of himself …

… On Opera Essays & Reviews 1959-2002 - New Rambler Review. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Williams views pseudo-science as a real danger: “Deconstructionist deniers may not always read books very well, but at least they may encourage people to read books, and to understand the history from which those books came.” Reductive science, by contrast, “does not encourage anyone to understand history at all.” The loss of historical understanding, he repeatedly makes clear, would be devastating for our lives with one another, and for politics.

Indeed.