Modern South Arabian

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    “Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.”
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    “Up from the South at break of day,
    Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay,
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    Like a herald in haste, to the chieftain’s door,
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