Playing at populism is laughable when the existential threat to Labour is how to represented a shattered working class and a middle class that is fast dissolving.
"Only the expressionless completes the work" as a work of art, Benjamin argues, and it does so by shattering the work's semblance of unity, the false appearance of totality pertaining to it.
Earlier this week the comic book world lost one of the most innovative and boundary shattering artists working in the business.
In Mozart's Quartet No. 19 in C (K. 465) it produced a dark sound and played with unusual restraint, as if anything louder than a mezzo forte would shatter the work.
Consistent with previous work, shattering wild rice individuals possess clear, defined abscission layers at flowering, whereas non-shattering cultivated rice individuals do not.
Not all of them were heart-breaking works of shattering genius, though typically Smith was the best thing in them.
It makes Would I Lie to You?, Brydon's other quiz show, seem like a work of shattering genius.
Above all, it's a work of shattering modernist nihilism that could fit on the shelf between Beckett and Céline, and should therefore be repackaged in an edition that intense young men will want to be seen reading in cafes.
Still, as distinct from revisionist historians and environmentalists hellbent on trampling any triumphalist frontier memory, McMurtry keeps a soft spot in his heart for the pain and courage of plain people who endured the killing work, the shattering loneliness, the persistent threat of Indian raids.
When you do anything to damage that relationship, as United did this week, you risk shattering the trust you worked so hard to build.
