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Of course the salient instrumental/melodic/rhythmic features are enjoyable and the lyrical content is bewildering, but a full star of my rating is due exclusively to the existence of Mighty Sparrow.

I'm skeptical. The confinement to a screen, the unceasing linear progression, the ability to overwhelm with visual stimuli all give film a hypnotic quality; when watching movies, I sometimes feel like emotions are being wrung out of me through an inventory of psychological parlor tricks. Nonetheless, I like the importance that singular images can assume within a film and within the memory of a film. I like how many people are involved in their production, since it means that every film will be interesting in ways the director not only didn't intend but couldn't have possibly intended.

Theoretically extremely interesting. The only artistic medium where traversal of space is required in order to meaningfully experience a work? Sculpture comes close but the scope and aims are different. In practice, though, most buildings forbid members of the public from running through and around them

It's obviously a compelling form, and there are some literary ideas only a long work can explore fruitfully. In my limited experience, the longer a piece of writing becomes, the more it embodies arbitrariness and disunity, which is fine, but I have trouble understanding the arbitrariness of the 19th-century novel specifically.

It all starts here. Absolutely essential.