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In the case of a writer like Musil writing is often a graceful act,like a silvery fish leaping.

— Elfriede Jelinek

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "In the case of a writer like Musil writing is often a graceful act,like a silvery fish leaping." in the context of "p 37" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Elfriede Jelinek

About Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek (German pronunciation: ɛlˈfʀiːdə ˈjɛlinɛk; born October 20, 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power."