Another unpaved road into the picturesque unknown. Of might Horace Sykes have decided to omit all descriptions so that his universals would not be reduced to the mundane anxieties and/or pleasures of mere identification?
Another unpaved road into the picturesque unknown. Of might Horace Sykes have decided to omit all descriptions so that his universals would not be reduced to the mundane anxieties and/or pleasures of mere identification?
I should think it would be the other way round; if he’d wanted viewers to focus on the universal then orecise descriptions would have headed off that puzzling impulse.
Matt
Did you mean to type “oversize descriptions” – like mine sometimes?
No, I meant “precise”. (But maybe accuracy and not precision is my problem?)