Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has become one of them. Dressed up as a scintillating double negation, it serves the pedestrian notion of art as illusion.

Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest (ed. Univ of California Press, 1990) - ISBN: 9780520909052