christopher ownens - oh boy
“How could any serious critic ever have forgotten that to care about specific characters is to care about the utterly specific words they say when and as they say them; or that we care about the utterly specific words of a play because certain men and women are having to give voice to them? Yet apparently both frequently happen. Evidently what is to be remembered here is difficult to remember, or difficult to do - like attending with utter specificity to the person now before you, or to yourself.”
Stanley Cavell, The Avoidance of Love
