So the traditional way of thinking about aesthetics is that we have to somehow draw a line between the aesthetic and the non-aesthetic so that sex and drugs are out, but hairstyle and music are in. How can this be done?
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― Orlando
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― Orlando
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― Play It As It Lays
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― Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations
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