why are readings so wordy and difficult !

"...henceforth Pascal's condemnation of painting is itself rendered vain since the photograph allows us on the one hand to admire in reproduction something that our eyes alone could not have taught us to love, and on the other, to admire the painting as thing in itself whose relation to something in nature has ceased to be the justification of its existence..."

blah had to read this three times.

extract from Bazin's "The Ontology of the Photographic Image"