Lost icons: reflections on cultural bereavement

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Whereas fashion comes and goes, cultural icons arise from generations of conversation, and "represent some of the basic constraints on what human beings can reasonably do and say together if they are going to remain within a recognizably human conversation." Specifically Williams explores images of childhood, our awkwardness at speaking about community, our unwillingness to think seriously about remorse…

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