It is not cheap, but much of the price is offset by one 28-second song, " Kein Haus, Keine Heimat " ( " No House, No Homeland " ), a marvel of pointillistic pithiness, in Fischer-Dieskau's compelling reading with Daniel Barenboim.
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He is using the clipped form of ellipsis, " the omission of words that the context makes unnecessary, " another falling short of completeness and perfection . ( His shortening reflects a clip by the grammarian Henry Fowler that is not yet in most dictionaries, but language mavens often push lexicographic envelopes . ) Scrupulous writers use three dots to indicate an ellipsis in a quotation when pithiness is desired but some stuffed shirt goes on and on.
