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The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular. " Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.

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One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas as semisacred, and to treat others in a certain way - professionally.

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