The transcendental promises a vacation from history.
The Media: bold sex and violence, timid politics and morals.
Supermarkets depict abundance; boutiques exclusiveness; roadside stands authenticity.
We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.
Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.
To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.