Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they
really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully
than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people
talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry
human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human
beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make.
Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously
going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.
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