
“But this fact should not blind us to another one: that almost anyone can learn a script well enough to give a charitable audience some sense of realness in what is being contrived before them. And it seems this is so because ordinary social intercourse is itself put together as a scene is put together, by the exchange of dramatically inflated actions, counteractions, and terminating replies… All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify.”
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Pretentiousness: Why It Matters
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