Comments on: Dante’s People http://www.spinozablue.com/2009/06/2551/ An Eclectic Journal of the Arts Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:40:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Robert Mueller http://www.spinozablue.com/2009/06/2551/comment-page-1/#comment-468 Robert Mueller Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:51:41 +0000 http://www.spinozablue.com/?p=2551#comment-468 All very interesting. Thanks.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('468','Robert Mueller'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('468','Robert Mueller','All very interesting. Thanks.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> All very interesting. Thanks.
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]]> By: Cuchulain http://www.spinozablue.com/2009/06/2551/comment-page-1/#comment-467 Cuchulain Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:08:39 +0000 http://www.spinozablue.com/?p=2551#comment-467 It was always thus. A major part of art is to make it new and make it appear that it can't appear any other way. Spontaneously on purpose. Contradictions R Us. Etc. Yep, if you paint too long, it turns to mud. If you write too much, it turns to chaos and self-indulgence. They say, Wolfe was created by Perkins. They say. <em>The Waste Land</em> was made by Pound. They say. Who knows? Perhaps eventually Wolfe and Elliot would have come to similar conclusions about their work . . . Probably not. Aside from the inevitable, there seems to be a bit of the four leaf clover involved at times. Pick it up, and you have something special. Not asynchronous, for sure. At least that's how the legend goes.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('467','Cuchulain'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('467','Cuchulain','It was always thus. A major part of art is to make it new and make it appear that it can\'t appear any other way. Spontaneously on purpose. Contradictions R Us. Etc. Yep, if you paint too long, it turns to mud. If you write too much, it turns to chaos and self-indulgence. They say, Wolfe was created by Perkins. They say. <em>The Waste Land<\/em> was made by Pound. They say. Who knows? Perhaps eventually Wolfe and Elliot would have come to similar conclusions about their work . . . Probably not. Aside from the inevitable, there seems to be a bit of the four leaf clover involved at times. Pick it up, and you have something special. Not asynchronous, for sure. At least that\'s how the legend goes.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> It was always thus. A major part of art is to make it new and make it appear that it can’t appear any other way. Spontaneously on purpose. Contradictions R Us. Etc. Yep, if you paint too long, it turns to mud. If you write too much, it turns to chaos and self-indulgence. They say, Wolfe was created by Perkins. They say. The Waste Land was made by Pound. They say. Who knows? Perhaps eventually Wolfe and Elliot would have come to similar conclusions about their work … Probably not. Aside from the inevitable, there seems to be a bit of the four leaf clover involved at times. Pick it up, and you have something special. Not asynchronous, for sure. At least that’s how the legend goes.
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]]> By: Robert Mueller http://www.spinozablue.com/2009/06/2551/comment-page-1/#comment-466 Robert Mueller Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:13:18 +0000 http://www.spinozablue.com/?p=2551#comment-466 But it is also and before and after question, don't you think. The synchronicity that the artist comes up with is so fine that it seems to be "already" there, whereas if the artist or writer goes looking for connections that are necessary, and only those, she or he may lose the connections altogether, giving up the spontaneity that paradoxically, "after the fact," discovers the already there.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('466','Robert Mueller'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('466','Robert Mueller','But it is also and before and after question, don\'t you think. The synchronicity that the artist comes up with is so fine that it seems to be \"already\" there, whereas if the artist or writer goes looking for connections that are necessary, and only those, she or he may lose the connections altogether, giving up the spontaneity that paradoxically, \"after the fact,\" discovers the already there.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> But it is also and before and after question, don’t you think. The synchronicity that the artist comes up with is so fine that it seems to be “already” there, whereas if the artist or writer goes looking for connections that are necessary, and only those, she or he may lose the connections altogether, giving up the spontaneity that paradoxically, “after the fact,” discovers the already there.
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]]> By: Cuchulain http://www.spinozablue.com/2009/06/2551/comment-page-1/#comment-465 Cuchulain Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:52:58 +0000 http://www.spinozablue.com/?p=2551#comment-465 Barrett meant that if artist X had not created it, someone else, inevitably, would have. At least that's how I take it. Meaning, the work is so "right", it's destined to be produced by someone, eventually. All things would eventually have aligned in such a way. Lots of ways to look at that and it's complicated. But I always like the ring of his pithy saying.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('465','Cuchulain'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('465','Cuchulain','Barrett meant that if artist X had not created it, someone else, inevitably, would have. At least that\'s how I take it. Meaning, the work is so \"right\", it\'s destined to be produced by someone, eventually. All things would eventually have aligned in such a way. Lots of ways to look at that and it\'s complicated. But I always like the ring of his pithy saying.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Barrett meant that if artist X had not created it, someone else, inevitably, would have. At least that’s how I take it. Meaning, the work is so “right”, it’s destined to be produced by someone, eventually. All things would eventually have aligned in such a way. Lots of ways to look at that and it’s complicated. But I always like the ring of his pithy saying.
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]]> By: Robert Mueller http://www.spinozablue.com/2009/06/2551/comment-page-1/#comment-463 Robert Mueller Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:17:52 +0000 http://www.spinozablue.com/?p=2551#comment-463 In my writing I try not to ask whether a connection I am finding obeys necessity. When you say "inevitable," you mean something a little different from that, so that I pay careful attention to your opening. You say "Like destiny" and I like it that it is "like."<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('463','Robert Mueller'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('463','Robert Mueller','In my writing I try not to ask whether a connection I am finding obeys necessity. When you say \"inevitable,\" you mean something a little different from that, so that I pay careful attention to your opening. You say \"Like destiny\" and I like it that it is \"like.\"'); return false;">Quote</a></div> In my writing I try not to ask whether a connection I am finding obeys necessity. When you say “inevitable,” you mean something a little different from that, so that I pay careful attention to your opening. You say “Like destiny” and I like it that it is “like.“
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