“Things are always terriblefor some people. The questionis the ratio of the palpable hurtto the general sessionof life in an era.”

“Things are always terriblefor some people. The questionis the ratio of the palpable hurtto the general sessionof life in an era.”

“One thinks of the failure of representation since 9/11, the proliferation of novels, the media glut, the surfeit of images that somehow slide too easily into a banal repertoire, commodified shock.”