He suggests that people are looking for something beyond rationalism: a kind of idealism, something that speaks to their own values.
For Milbrett, soccer is a kind of jazz, something that must be felt instead of instructed.
'In a kind of way, something doesn't exist until it is read.
Still, I considered the sport a kind of inheritance, something that my American friends were merely borrowing.
Meatyard described the masks as a kind of "billboard," something that catches the attention and draws an onlooker into a scene she might otherwise pass by.
And the condition of obscurity, or non-celebrity, is seen as a kind of deprivation, something to be very much resented and fought against.
We have language and imagination, and they mean that what we do with each other and with each other's bodies is always a kind of communication, something that carries or makes meanings.
In the prologue, Doty writes, "I no longer think of AIDS as a solvent, but perhaps rather as a kind of intensifier, something which makes things more firmly, deeply themselves.
But they're equally horrible if you're buff, lending the wearer a kind of cleavage, something you want to see on a man only if he's in the Alternative Miss World.
In each case, the subject has grown into a kind of obsession, something I felt I could no longer resist.
Throughout all this, the painting remains a kind of talisman, something permanent and authentic in a world of threatening uncertainties, though when needed it can also be used as collateral for shady criminal dealings.
