There are an endless number of human truths … History is only interested in facts; emotions are excluded from its realm of interest.
The similarity between these items constitutes its own realm of interest.
"I don't think she judges anything in advance as being beneath her, or beyond her, or outside her realm of interest".
In the introduction to Second-hand Time, her collection of oral histories from dissolution of the Soviet Union to the anti-Putin protests of 2012, which I'm translating into English at the moment, Alexievich argues: "History's sole concern is the facts; emotions are outside of its realm of interest … But I look at the world as a writer, and not strictly an historian.
Indeed, in recent months I have been (mostly pleasantly) surprised by things that I find myself doing/thinking/liking/etc. that once seemed so far outside my realm of interest that I barely acknowledged their existence.
But, if your doctor denies what you're saying, doesn't listen, seems disinterested or too busy, then brilliant as he or she may be, it's possible that you are outside of his or her realm of interest.
Finally, I celebrate the documentary that celebrates the artist Chet Zar, I Like to Paint Monsters, and alert retro-horror fans to the delights of a new homevid collection, The American Horror Project, Volume 1. Then it's time for light lunch, but that's outside of your realm of interest, isn't it?
The answers are tangled and difficult to follow, but the process of seeking them authorizes excursions into most every realm that interests Amis, particularly the rancid subculture of Southern California porn.
Actually my desire to head SACNAS seems to me like a natural transition, a way to expand on my abilities and contribute my eclecticism to another realm of interest--science.
But if that is so, it is difficult to see how we could cast light upon the realm of aesthetic interest by studying the concept of art.
