It is no longer a matter of challenging the viewer; it is no longer adversarial at all. The artist now simply investigates cultural codes, and reports to the spectator concerning what was found.
Crispin Trove, The Viewer as Pest.
They don’t want to improve the world, they want to change it. They wish to destroy.
Hunter Hogarth, Raised by Wolves.
Society should not encourage mental illness.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
Gravity is a social construct.
Terence Theodore, Proverbs for a New Era.
“It appears,” said Mr. Balfour, “that she is objecting to physics!”
Corliss Archer, Boarding the Crazy Train.
“If there really is a world. And we don’t know that, do we? I mean, we are all skeptics of course. But if there is a world, and if that world has a center, then that, old boy, is where Naomi dwells.”
Will Southey, Government Cheese, the Novel.
“And how do we find out about the present?” No one spoke, so he answered his own question: “We wait.”
Pryce Cummings, Rattle Box.
“For what it’s worth, Katie, I think that our ancestors are profoundly embarrassed by us.”
Lawrence Bird, Make It So.
The house that you dwell in is your box. Your trunk. A seaman’s chest.
Quentin Drabb, Ebenezer’s Untold Tales.
“What’s the matter, Irene? What’s wrong?” He could barely hear her as she disappeared round the corner. “Everything. Everything is wrong.”
Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.
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