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Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Images Are ... A Kind Of Emotional

Erica Jong
Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.
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In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. now we're into a different kind of recycling. moviemakers give movies of the past an authority that those movies didn't have; they inflate images that may never have compelled belief, images that were no more than shorthand gestures and they use them not as larger-than-life jokes but as altars.
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I didn't know shorthand either. this meant i couldn't get a good job after college. my mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain english major. but an english major who knew shorthand would be something else again. everybody would want her. she would be in demand among all the up-and-coming young men and she would transcribe letter after thrilling letter. the trouble was, i hated the idea of serving men in any way. i wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters.
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