“Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things. Well-known fact,”

Things seriously beautiful are, perhaps, the only things that we can jest about with complete spiritual safety.

The Benton & Bowles agency holds that ‘if it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.’

The modern parallel called up is comic, but the truth is that mediaeval actualities have a violence that does seem comic to our conventions. The Catholics of that age were driven by two dominant thoughts: the all–importance of penitence as an answer to sin, and the all–importance of vivid and evident external acts as a proof of penitence.

When you encounter a culture totally uncontaminated by logic, it eventually undermines your reliance on reason. For example, Johnny Lynn walked into a department store in search of cufflinks. ‘Where do I find cufflinks?’ he asked. ‘Try the tobacco counter.’ ‘No,’ said Johnny, indicating the cuffs on his shirt, ‘cufflinks.’ ‘Yis. Try the tobacco cou