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" ...the only way to keep a classical work alive, is to treat it as 'open' pointing towards the future, or, to use the metaphor evoked by Walter Benjamin, to act as if the classical work is a film for which the appropriate chemical liquids to develop it was invented only later, so that it is only today that we can get the full picture. "

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Žižek, Slavoj quote : ...the only way to keep a classical work alive, is to treat it as 'open' pointing towards the future, or, to use the metaphor evoked by Walter Benjamin, to act as if the classical work is a film for which the appropriate chemical liquids to develop it was invented only later, so that it is only today that we can get the full picture.