Choral symphony simply an attempt at grandiose effect, though the composer's use of such forces earned the work the subtitle "Symphony of a Thousand" from his press agent (a name still applied to the symphony). Like Stravinsky, Mahler makes extensive and extended use of counterpoint, especially in the first part, "Veni Creator Spiritus". Throughout this section, according to music writer Michael Kennedy, Mahler displays considerable mastery in manipulating multiple independent melodic voices. Musicologist Deryck Cooke adds that Mahler handles his huge forces "with extraordinary clarity". Vaughan Williams also insisted on a balance between words and music in "A Sea Symphony", writing in
A Thousand Plateaus does not". The philosopher Roger Scruton dismisses "A Thousand Plateaus" as "nonsense" and "unreadable". A Thousand Plateaus A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia () is a 1980 philosophy book by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the French psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. The authors draw upon and discuss the work of a number of authors, including Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Wilhelm Reich. "A Thousand Plateaus" is written in a non-linear fashion, and the reader is invited to move among plateaux in any order. It is the second volume of "Capitalism and Schizophrenia", and the successor to "Anti-Oedipus" (1972). Before the