• What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.

    Thomas Mann: What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
    Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.12, Vintage