of depth and ateliers

   There’s not enough dialog in our culture that punctuates this posture, and I adore it. In Malcolm Gladwell’s What the Dog Saw we find, as a consistent pattern, “the conversation underlying the conversation.” This perspective is senior to simply uncovering a back story. This hyper-conscious completeness is a reveal to an understanding that is uncommon and extraordinary.
   Gladwell pulls this off with a balance of sensitivity and passion while maintaining a strong impartial objectivity (no small feat of itself). It leaves the reader with a sense that the narrative quite likely couldn’t have been conveyed any better. Yet moreover, the power of this depth highlights life lessons of context, risk, focus and other disparate qualities across the contemporary universe. After digesting Gladwell’s Outliers, a “Louvre”, it was not a letdown to be secreted off to a series of “ateliers”.