Rohan Quine, “The Imagination Thief”, 53 The meaning of a spotlight from bad wall feeling Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 5 min 24 sec
✓ Published: 23-Oct-2011

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[…]nnt“Ready?” she asks. I nod. And we watch…nntI realise straight away that this broadcast will make a strange juxtaposition, for me, with the drunken whimsy of the picnic I’ve just had. As soon as it begins I sober up fast, for it is no kind of mirthful viewing: not that it’s entirely without flashes of implicit wit, but these are subtle rather than funny and in any case they must be engaged with on the broadcast’s terms, not on the viewer’s. The viewer is not in control of Sou