Which is sad". Technology has been at the heart of Reich's work ever since he started making music with two tape recorders in the early 1960s, and it has also been his intellectual muse.
Almost as devastating for deconstruction and Mr. Derrida was the revelation, also in 1987, that Heidegger, one of his intellectual muses, was a dues-paying member of the Nazi Party from 1933 to 1945.
Many Alawite women now wear headscarves, the standard Sunni garb, and Sunni intellectuals muse hopefully at the gradual dissolving of Alawite tradition into the Sunni mainstream.But the changes are cosmetic: the upper echelons of the president's power base remain firmly Alawite, and Sunnis still feel slighted.
His four-decade struggle for a role has apparently led Charles to see himself as some kind of of intellectual dissident, musing on a range of topics from religion to architecture, health, the environment, and foreign affairs.
Thirty-two years later at his ninetieth birthday party he recalled the gibe delightedly, in the company of the liberal political and intellectual elite whose muse he has been.
One fancies her life as curator of design at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan to be an endless series of charming intellectual and aesthetic enigmas, mused over for hours with a large box of chocolates close at hand.
Recently, in his Saugus town house, surrounded by Dali-like paintings, thick books and other objets d' arts that subtly recalled the postal clerk's background as a European intellectual, white-haired Sebastian Mendes mused on the end of his quest.
INNOCENT musing by a well-intentioned intellectual?
"She's well bred, a little bit intellectual, eccentric, twisted," he said of his muse spending a semester at an all-girls school.
But "the muse," through decades of feminist and intellectual discourse, has become one of the more loaded terms of art history.
It is part of the process of history turning her into an alluring, romantic, fey pin-up - more Pre-Raphaelite muse than the towering literary and intellectual figure that she became.
