Contemporary was in those days 1953synonymous with modern as it had not been before and is not now 1977.
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Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity the identity of a culture place language and history the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic representation.
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Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
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