The Critic

Animadversion is criticism, a word which has gotten a bad deal. It's not nice to criticize people but when you're talking about books or painting criticism is epistemic and can open up worlds of thought and also sensibility. Criticism is the country  cousin of art itself to the extent it conveys a way of looking at the world which is in fact what art is supposed to do. Some critics like Clement Greenberg who was the ideologue of abstract expression can be dogmatic in their brilliance. Others like the famous critic of modern British literature F.R. Leavis are a bright light in the deep cavern of antiquity like Keats' "Grecian Urn" the embodiment of immortality itself.

read "Frankel" by Francis Levy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

and listen to "You Don't Know Like I Know"by Sam & Dave