Stubborn is not Strength.

Art is a niqab; a book is revealing.

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One can share a piece, a sculpture, a drawing, a painting, etc. but they're easy to hide behind.
There exists a huge communication gap. Art is a comfy wooly protective shroud.
A book is bare. Baring bones. You'll see me; I don't necessarily want you to...but here I am, bare.
In this way words are more difficult than images.
Compared to objects words are itchy fleece floorfallen.

Great Britain - how can so much rain fall on such an intellectual desert?
The rain that falls does nothing to green this intellectual drought.