Still, as in his earlier books on the same subject, whose idée fixe is the supposed superiority of hyperfast and hyperradical reform, whatever the circumstances, Mr. Aslund can claim two important achievements.

I believe I can affirm without exaggeration that surrealism has permitted painting to outdistance with seven-league boots the three apples of Renoir, the four asparagi of Manet, the little chocolate women of Derain and the tobacco packets of the cubists, to see opening before it a field of vision limited only by the capacity for irritability of the mental faculties.

[H]e did not fail to be extremely disconcerted at his first entrance into a scene of life to which he was totally a stranger. Not but that he met with abundance of people in the country […].

In a Monday blog post, The Pirate Bay's WinstonQ2038 labeled the site's new category physibles --data objects that users can transform from digital to physical form via 3D printers and scanners.