I am bemused. I viscerally don't like it, but I can't justify the magnitude of my distaste. The paper quotes Proust with a straight face. But then there is a

I am bemused. I viscerally don't like it, but I can't justify the magnitude of my distaste. The paper quotes Proust with a straight face. But then there is also the happy/sad slider of Figure 4. Major whiplash. It's a combination of extreme, even admirable, erudition and a very hokey experimental setup designed to quantify the obvious.