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Upon Your Heads
Summary: The speaker introduces a brief contrived story about a stern woman visiting a museum in Saint Petersburg. She dismisses centuries of masterworks in only a few minutes, but a guard quietly reminds her that the paintings are not the ones being evaluated. The story teaches that the observer, not just the object observed, is on trial.
Let me begin with a contrived story. A woman stern of face entered a Saint Petersburg museum. (Let the record show that I did not say Leningrad; recently the name has been changed back to the original because reality has changed.) She spent less than five minutes walking past masterworks that had been produced over centuries. Then, with a “Harrumph!” she headed for the exit. A guard said to her quietly, “Madam, the paintings are not on trial. You are.”
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