Where do you propose that that should lead us?

“For me art is the civilized substitute for magic; as philosophy is what, on a higher or more complex plane, takes the place of religion” - Wyndham Lewis, Time and Western Man, Book II, ch. IV, p. 193.

Two opposite things

“Mr, Joyce could never have performed this particular feat if he had not been, in his make-up, extremely immobile; and yet, in contradiction to that, very open to new technical influences. It is the craftsman in Joyce that is progressive; but the man has not moved since his early days in Dublin. He is on that side a ‘young’ man in some way embalmed.” - Wyndham Lewis, Time and Western Man, Book I, ch. XVI, p. 92.

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The cheap, socially available simulacrum

“And all the great inventions reach the crowd in the form of toys (crystal-sets, motor-cars), and it is as helpless children that, for the most part, it participates in these stirring events. (That it is as children, as resolute and doctrinaire Peter Pans indeed, that most people wish to live, is equally true; but that is not here the issue.)” - Wyndham Lewis, Time and Western Man, Book I, appendix, p. 124.