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Hee Haw was pure cornpone – but with a self-knowing attitude.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
20 June 2025 Schoenberg comes across as either self-knowing prophet or goofball.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2025 All matter was suffused by a single, infinite, and self-knowing motion.—
Merve Emre,
The New Yorker,
29 Jan. 2024