Here are three quotes which describe what I’m trying to relate better than I can — and is precisely why we repeatedly gravedig history — simply because peoeple have articulated it better than we can:
It is by omission that we might be exact.Where we have spoken openly we have actually said nothing. But where we have written in code and in pictures we have revealed the truth.
A person who calls his stuff the “new” this or “new” that (like a person who should always refer to himself as “the handsome Mr Brown” or “Brown the original” ought immediately to be able to convulse us with boredom, fling us into compulsory sleep or the most absolute inattention.
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