Last summer, the Paris Opera Ballet presented " Le Parc, " his dazzling gloss on 18th-century games of love, at the Metropolitan Opera House, and a rougher blend of similar eroticism and obliqueness is now on view at the Joyce Theater.
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Glenn Gould once said if he could be any key, he would be F minor, because " it's rather dour, halfway between complex and stable, between upright and lascivious, between gray and highly tinted . . . There is a certain obliqueness ."
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His thesis was that " the presence of unresolved residues of meaning is an obstacle to the enjoyment of art ", and he attempted to " help remove the veil of obscurity which not only distance in time . . . but a deliberate obliqueness in the use of metaphor has spread over some of the greatest Renaissance paintings ."
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In the process of calling " Paterson " an "'Ars Poetica'for contemporary America, " Dudley Fitts complained, " it is a pity that those who might benefit most from it will inevitably be put off by its obscurities and difficulties . " Breslin, meanwhile, accounted for the poem's obliqueness by saying, " " Paterson " has a thickness of texture, a multi-dimensional quality that makes reading it a difficult but intense experience ."
