He adds something further.
Last night's result was, he adds: "Something akin to justice – if indeed justice exists in this game.
"They will still value, and pay for, experiences that are unique and remarkable," he adds, "something you'd tell someone about, that you'd convey through word of mouth".
And Hillside's students will grow up with a better understanding of different cultures, he adds, something that will stay with them throughout their adult lives.
But being given a few years to live appears to have engendered Kugel's own, very intimate shift in perspective, and when he talks openly about his new, chagrined grasp of his all-too-human condition, he adds something raw and beautiful to his exegetical prowess.
He adds something about the replicability of the image and its ability to survive very crude reductive reproduction, but he says, almost petulantly, that he doesn't really accept the premise (he spells it premiss – smarter, more archaic) that compelling images should have much in common.
