nostr:npub1ex328w5w0hjweznw8t6f9epk5w5xy4ak6kzyc7y93lfjtelxuymsk9c58j Auden has an essay in which he talks — a propos Pickwick, I think — about the English legal system reducing justice to an "aesthetic contest". Back then, ofc, readers would have guessed he didn't consider that a good thing.