Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
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By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.
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One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.
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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
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