“Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.”
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
