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A(nother) Picasso!
x:Picasso's works are so complicated and intricate. So emotive.c:I guess.x:I just get such a unique and authentic sense of the world when I look at them.c:I don't know. Braque seemed to be able to replicate them all quite well. -
America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth.
Having known no primitive accumulation of time, it lives in a perpetual present.Jean Baudrillard, America -
By the mid-1960s the conviction was not merely that the realistic novel was no longer possible but that American life itself no longer deserved the term ‘real’. Writers in the university creative writing programs had long, phenomenological discussions in which they decided that the act of writing words on a page was the real thing and the so-called real world of America was the fiction, requiring the suspension of disbelief.
Tom Wolfe, ‘Introduction: Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast,’ The Bonfire of the Vanities
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