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(n.) The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea.
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the...
Robert Hughes
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art, avant garde, confidence, culture, david foster wallace, ebullience, idealism, irony, meta modernism, metaphor
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more lan...
Thomas Henry Huxley
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biology, business, charles darwin, darwin, goal, history, illimitable, inexplicability, infinite, intellectual