I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.
Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.
Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery.
I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.
Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.
But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.
It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.
Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.