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| df37efd | Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain, the pain of surrendering easier pleasures in favour of much more difficult ones ... successful literary works are achieved anxieties, not releases from anxieties. | literature canon anxiety | Harold Bloom | |
| d116095 | photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself... | photography grief loss romance joy meaning past love fujifilm nikon kodak kodachrome super-8 canon photo capture film knowledge nostalgia | Rebecca McNutt |