It is an underlie, because it is not at all difficult to understand why one is not un- derstood, and that one is not stood because one is understood, and that one can not stand that which one understands precisely because one does. Not many people know that a discovered contradiction needs to be pro- tected against apologetic explanations reducing it to mere conflict. Even fewer people know that conflicts can be resolved within the system in which they are said to be conflicts, and that contradictions can not. To turn contradictions into conflicts is the concern of the reformer who criticizes the flaws in a desired system. The object is its name when called upon to manifest nothing but its mere existence.
Monologues are lonely dialogues.
Response prevents monologues. The Listencr is called upon to manifest more than his mere existence. The Composer is called upon to manifest more than his mere existence. Nor is music in performance an object Anyone can call that, to which he refuses to respond, a monologue. Anyone can respond to that which he refuses to call a monologue.