Shibboleth & Scepticism

Sample dialogue from the rear seats of the family car last Sunday:

Child 1: "Where are we going?"

Parent 1: "To Tate Modern."

Child 2: Why?"

Parent 2: "To see a crack in the ground."

Child 1: "What's the point of going to see a crack in the ground."

Parent 1: "Because it'll help you think great thoughts."

Child 2: "About what?"

Parent 2: "About the meaning of life and...everything."

Child 3: "But what's the point!"

Parents 1 & 2 together: "You'll enjoy it when you get there."

They did, too, albeit not quite in the way the artist had in mind. Modern art, eh. Tsk.

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[wrinkled weasel]

“Society is fundamentally meaningless,” says Bataille. It could be said that the main theme of Salcedo's analysis of tangental linear discourse - the crack in the floor - is not narrative, but postnarrative. The subject is interpolated into a substructuralist paradigm of discourse that includes reality as a paradox.

Which is why people mistake it for a crack in the floor.

[Dave Hill]

Absolutely, Wrinkled. My sentiments exactly...

[Littlebear]

snort. They actually trained us in how to do that in art school. Not kidding. They were all serious as a coronary whilst doing it too. I was astounded.