“Movies are so rarely great art, that if we cannot appreciate great trash, we have very little reason to be interested in them.”
Going Steady (1969), Trash, Art and the Movies (February 1969)
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Context: Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.

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