Banality
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[edit] Synonyms[edit] Antonyms"When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two cliches make us laugh but a hundred cliches moves us because we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion . . . Just as the extreme of pain meets sensual pleasure, and the extreme of perversion borders on mystical energy, so too the extreme of banality allows us to catch a glimpse of the Sublime." -- Umberto Eco, "Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage" (1984) from Travels in Hyperreality |
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Ban (medieval) or banality is the power to summon free men for military service.
Banality may also refer to:
- Banalité, a payment serfs were required to make to their lords
- Eichmann in Jerusalem, a 1963 book by Hannah Arendt which popularised the phrase "banality of evil"
- Banality (sculpture series), a series of works by Jeff Koons exhibited in 1988
- Bathos
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