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Posted by dorayme on 12/20/07 05:37
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Gerald Newton <electrician@electrician2.com> wrote:
> Three columns over and over again. What happened to originality?
This appears to me to be an extremely superficial criticism. I
cannot and will not accept it. Take it back.
The sonnet is a not altogether complicated form but there are the
most beautiful examples of it and people can still do nice things
with it. Same goes for any form at all in just about anything. It
is not the form but the substance that matters. It is plain silly
to think that 3 cols means that everyone who makes 3 cols does
the same boring thing. There is nothing inherently boring about
any columned format. No, not even for n=1.
In fact, all of the highest art, as distinguished from the silly
and superficial business of mere novelty, is heavily constrained
by form. I go as far as to say that it depends on the
constraints. Have you seen what bloody well happens to artists of
all kinds, musicians and film directors and others when they are
not constrained. When they think they can do whatever they bloody
well like? When they become rich and can command whatever
resources they want. When they can do whatever they like. Their
art often goes to pieces. There is nothing to hold it up, no
scaffold to play against. Their music gets slicker bands and not
that raw early powerful energy of a simple guitar twanging away,
their finer expensive paints...
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dorayme
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