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V. Bühlmann, M. Burr, G. Stein:
"Introduction, Conference Reading: what are masterpieces and why are there so few of them?";
Talk: SOPHISTICATION: Rhetorical, Geometrical And Computational »Articulation«. Conference, TU Wien; 2017-12-07 - 2017-12-09.

'I was almost going to write an abstract and let you read what masterpieces are and why there are so few of them, at least according to Gertrude Stein and me. Therefore I was going to describe and getting to the point of this lecture, but actually it is impossible to describe and getting to the point because describing essentially has nothing to do with hitting a point. Describing is tracing outlines of a figure which in itself has no single description. It is like a state of not being able to remember the word I want and through movements of thinking grasping a few stars describing ellipses in the heavens.'

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_267579.pdf