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striving to please: the second tear

It always strives to please. Pleasing and self-congatulating as a ready-made. Kitsch. The inevitable feature of an art in which too much money and desire is chasing too little taste and knowledge. If Kitsch is like the common cold, impossible … Continue reading

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TRIVIAL PURSUITS & BOYS IN STRIPED SUITS

”However here we also get the first doubtful use of the Holocaust in Beatrice and Virgil. We are told that fewer than two per cent of Holocaust survivors ever tell of their ordeal. And so:’For his part, Henry now joined … Continue reading

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