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If it wasn’t for this habit of indirection, of course, there would be no culture in this world, and very little meaningful pleasure for any of us.
Oh my ! It is as if like a scale from 1 to 10. And if you jump directly to 10, it feels odd. You have to go through 3-5-7 and then 10. The art of indirectness is a lost one though. Now that everything is so direct, there is no place for culture to establish.
He is very American: super-enthusiastic, a little goofy, forever wishing a good day upon me.
‘A style is a means of insisting on something.’
When we look at familiar things, at familiar people, style recedes, or becomes totally invisible. (Sontag makes the same point about ‘realism’.) But in fact everything has a style – and the same amount of it, even if we value or interpret each iteration differently.
