…even a really beautiful, ingenious, powerful ad (of which there are a lot) can never be any kind of real art: an ad has no status as gift, i.e. it’s never really for the person it’s directed at.
– David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
And poached in this really amazing essay from Harper’s “The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism” by Jonathan Lethem which you should read immediately.
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Indeed!