approximation

“But what we have is something that sort of gives you an approximation to that in a weird kind of way.”

“I make art to try to understand things that I don’t yet understand fully, and the grief that I felt from significant breakups is my closest approximation of that,” Green says.

“The ways in which they approach reasoning are an approximation and not the real thing. And none of this is going away until we have some new technology.”

This live approximation of a vinyl record that catches on loop goes on for a few more minutes, the actors getting slightly louder and a tinge more testy as they continue the repetition.

The answer recently arrived in the form of an amber brew that Mr. McDonnell believes is the closest approximation yet to what Rameses the Great may have been drinking between battles with the Hittites.