With McDermott, you had to enter the past, you had to walk into another dimension.
"You had to enter and exit running, because they set up snipers on the rooftops," she said.
If you wanted to argue with Sontag, you had to enter into her work in terms of the way a stance, a position, made sense as an intervention.
"You had to enter driveways at a major angle". With Nudie's cars, as with his fashions, practicality or drivability wasn't the point.
When it opened last summer, word had it that you had to enter the taquería, push past a door marked "employees only," and walk down a grubby stairway to face the icy hostess, who, if she liked the look of you, would divulge an unlisted phone number that you could then, returning upstairs, dial in order to request a table.
And what you're supposed to do, ethically, is support the economic and social system you would choose if you had to enter that lottery not knowing what ticket you were going to draw — if you were making political choices behind the "veil of ignorance".
