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Patti & Nietzsche per Sontag & "The Din in the Head"



"...Sontag was "a central figure in the aesthetic bouleversement of
that period: the absorption of pop culture into high culture, the
abandonment of classical form for modernist fracture, the enthronement
of the shattered consciousness in place of realism and morals and
beginning-middle-end." The New York Times remarked that Sontag  for
all that "the life of the mind was for her something both rigorous and
passionate" could nevertheless link Patti Smith and Nietzsche. Under
the old eternity, no one would dream of linking Patti Smith and
Nietzsche. Under the new dispensation, the old eternity evaporated,
differentiation was dust, high culture was porous and always open to
Patti Smith." [snip]

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?textType=excerpt&titleNumber=689435

see also:

http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-bk-birkerts28may28,0,5000195.story?coll=cl-books-utility-right

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/28/books/28cnd-sont.html?ei=5090&en=f88d1db2e18c3c3b&ex=1261976400&pagewanted=all&position=

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/la-122804sontag_lat,0,2157061.story?page=2&coll=ny-entertainment-headlines

I can't locate an article cited by Ozack:

""The New York Times remarked that Sontag  for all that "the life of
the mind was for her something both rigorous and passionate" could
nevertheless link Patti Smith and Nietzsche."

Can you?  Perhaps the foreward author is being sloppy here and
referring to the nyt article above and another Sontag article in the
same sentence?