by Theodore Dalrymple (June 2015)
The association of ideas is itself an idea that has fallen into comparative desuetude of late because of its supposed lack of explanatory power, but it still seems to me useful as a way of describing how one idea evokes another. Certainly I seem very rarely to read a book nowadays without it calling forth in my mind memories or other kinds of associations: perhaps this is merely testimony to the length of my life, or alternatively to my choice of reading matter. more>>>
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Of course, the downside of learning from established precedent – such as the hierarchy of genres discussed in the Discourses – is the highly-polished, rule-obsessed and totally unengaging art of the nineteenth century Academy, thankfully destroyed by amongst others, the Impressionists. There are rules, and then there are rules, and perhaps the worst of Academy art is an example of virtues, when taken to extremes, becoming vices.