Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.

Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.

When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information I'm trying to convey) is only one part of it. Another part is stuff about me, the communicator. Everyone knows this. It's a function of the fact there are so many different well-formed ways to say the same basic thing, from e.g. "I was attacked by a bear!" to "Goddamn bear tried to kill me!" to "That ursine juggernaut did essay to sup upon my person!" and so on.

I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.

I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I.