What makes Payne's films compelling is the idea central to so many of them: in places that are low on cultural distraction, what becomes fascinating is the inhabitants (even if they struggle to find fascination in their own lives).
Shall we not find fascination in the earth's daily doings?
The specialist reader is likely to be drawn to sections on archival holdings and critical debates, whereas a more general reading public will be more apt to find fascination in the sections on Nabokov's butterflies, his metaphysics and the (surprising) point where the two converge.
In some sense that writes out the audience and makes us quite indifferent to them.' Jake finds the fascination that buyers and critics have with the Chapmans' studio now palls.
Gardner objected to the book's absurdist philosophy, "vulgarities of style", and a "touch of life-hate which reveals itself in the author's fascination with the ugly, the disgusting"; Gardner found this "fascination" perplexing, as "in other respects Barth seems all sunshine and good cheer".
Gradually, he found a fascination with cinema, along with the company of Murch and Coppola (his senior by five years).
It is no accident that at the root of these similarities we find a fascination with, and devotion to, the possibility of ongoing personal growth.
Many critics fail to find the fascination in lifecasting; indeed, much of the time Justin is sleeping or silently working at his computer.
