It is not necessary to read carefully but continuously from beginning to end, with sustained attention; a kind of thin, flat reading that rejects traditional humanist categories of depth, experience, motivation, and experience in favor of a singular focus of human subjects and observation on description rather than interpretations. To support his purpose, Love presents a justified illustration from Goffman's The Insanity. of Place. In his work, Goffman states that the sociological imagination can feed on personal experience, which leads to a systematic investigation of the interaction between our professional and everyday lives. Thus this example supports the hypothesis that identity should be understood as an affect rather than a cause in interactions such as asylums. It does not allude to factors of race, class, gender or sex but rather to extreme differences in habitual behavior. “Goffman was also associated with the tradition of symbolic interactionism founded by Herbert Blumer…” (Love 378) Heather Love predominates here The observation is defined in Latour's words: the real world and truths are not identical. The acquired truths are all there, on the surface, in multiple forms that must be redescribed. So our description must be close but not closed, always open to depth. The concept of frame analysis describes the true relationship between the real world and truths. A person uses a frame (representing structure) to hold together a picture (representing context) of what they are experiencing in their life. When Love claims that "deep" reading and textual richness serve as bearers of a supposedly supernatural humanism, she points toward the bourgeois humanism supposedly championed by Raymond Willi... middle of paper... hy and Goffman's neutral portraits of social interactions. In calling for 'flat' description in literary studies, scholars tend to focus on the need to suspend routine activities of disclosure and demystification, to free themselves from habits of paranoia and suspicion. As Edwrad Soja in History: Geography: Modernity, The Cultural Studies Reader argues that a concept becomes clearer and more lucid when its geographical, historical, and other perspectives of understanding are also sought. Love asserts that depth is also a dimension that critics attempt to produce in their readings, attributing life, richness, warmth, and voice to the text. Moving from interpretation to description could be a way to abandon that ghost of traditional historical and ethical rigidities, but who among us is willing to exchange the fat and the living for the thin and the dead??