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  • In Le Neveu de Rameau Diderot maintained that geniuses are hypertrophically devel - oped in one direction, but are failures as persons: Ils ne sont bons qu'à une chose, passé cela, rien; ils ne savent ce que c'est d'être citoyens, pères, mères, parents, amis.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas RUDOLF WITTKOWER 1968

  • Some people find this incredibly intense ceaseless flow of music and vocals very hard to listen to and quite annoying at best, or unlistenable hypertrophically pretentious noise at worst, others get emotionally dazzled, stunned and devastated after all the emotions and even involuntary chaotic moves again and again even after countless listens to this brain-burner.

    Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website 2010

  • Capital remains cryptic about why the process of exchange comes hypertrophically to exceed its traditional social boundaries: the text suggests the possibility for some sort of gradual quantitative creep, driven by internal potentials immanent to exchange itself - the potential, for example, to react back on and corrode the social boundaries of communities that originally traded only at their borders, with other communities.

    Roughtheory.org 2009

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