What is it that makes smallness lovable? That bigness should be impressive is understandable. We all respect Mount Everest as the world's highest, and Mont Blanc as Europe's highest mountain. The Nile impresses us as the world's longest river. The tallest building (in Dubai, as I recall) takes the breath away. The longest novels, by Tolstoy, and even more so, Proust, hold us in awe.Yet even weirder forms of bigness c…
SOURCE: John Simon at 10:31PM on May 20, 2013