To me exposition always contains tenderness. While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the reader, exposition assumes that the reader is sophisticated and can see the universal.
"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."
Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.
But against love, the case was solid. Easily argued. And you could, indeed, hold it in your hand.
With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
A guy can tell a girl he's in love with her until he's blue in the face. Words don't mean anything to a woman when her head's full of doubt. You have to show her.
In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.
For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.
