Category: A few great lines …

Culture [means] . . . those cognitive structures and social institutions that affectively instruct us with alternatives to violence as a means of resolving conflict and violence. Period.

-Brian Fawcett, Public Eye, noted Dec. 3, 1990

Suppose for a moment that there was no involuntary exercise of the creative imagination through memory. Suppose we had a perfect, impartial, scientific record of what really happened. Even then, we would still have almost nothing — and much too much. To study five years of the French Revolution in just one corner of Paris you would have to sit for five years in front of the screen.
– Timothy Garton Ash “On the Frontier” in The New York Review of Books, Nov. 7, 2002, p. 61

… The light of day is often the darkness of desire.
– Northrop Frye Anatomy of Criticism, p. 159, noted Nov. 26, 1990

Culture . . . may be provisionally [defined] as the total body of imaginative hypothesis in a society and its tradition.
– Northrop Frye Anatomy of Criticism p. 127