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"When I say literalism, I don't mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. As these phrases imply, to re-state the screamingly obvious does a kind of violence to art. "A point is still a point!""
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"When I say literalism, I don't mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. As these phrases imply, to re-state the screamingly obvious does a kind of violence to art. "A point is still a point!""
Hope this is helpful.
[0]https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/the-new-l...