Word: feigned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...premise is safe and sound. The unconscious breeds symbols and images; art is the unconscious made visible, and dreams are the bedtime stories we tell ourselves before we wake. Who then could feign indifference to the dreams of artists? Virginia Woolf recalled a nightmare in A Sketch of the Past: "I dreamt I was looking in a glass when a horrible face-the face of an animal-suddenly showed over my shoulder." The visitation was, she said, her persistent "looking glass shame," and in a fantasy of a haunted house she later wrote, "Death was the glass! Death was between...
...vision of a golden age of Christian polity. One might also question the almost cavalier way he selects and blends literature, history, religion, art and psychology and plasters them across the centuries. But it is impossible to deny the vitality and invention of the work, or to feign indifference to the most democratic and, at the same time, most aristocratic of subjects...