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>implying Bach ever wrote an aria as good as "But Who May Abide"
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>Feldman also liked to compare his long pieces to Asian rugs, for which he had a passion. The rugs that interested him most were ones which were irregular in their symmetries. That phrase, "irregular symmetries," has an odd ring, but one will discover in it an apt description of many rug styles of Central Asia (not Chinese rugs and not Indian rugs). Looking quickly at rugs from the Uzbek, or from the Turkomans (Tekke, Saryk and Yomud), one sees the same patterns repeated throughout a space, and the impression is strong that the result is symmetrical. However, closer examination reveals, to use one specific example, that an inverted candlelabrum shape along the borders is repeated eighteen times on one side and nineteen times on the other, and further, the colors do not match up. [30] Similarly, in the same rug, the central square is comprised of patterns which look the same, but are in fact composed of small variations among the details.
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