However, living in Tel Aviv, he was spared the fate of equivalent figures in English culture, an endless round of arts programmes where those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will be remembered only for remembering someone else.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Bennett notes that living in Tel Aviv spared a figure from the exhausting English cycle of celebrities being interviewed for their memories of others.
- In plain terms
- Tel Aviv avoids the British fame interview cycle.
- What can you take from it?
- Geography can protect from cultural exhaustion.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is fame worth the interviews?
- How does culture treat the famous?
Another view
It implies all interview culture is equally tedious.
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