No one says the work isn't "good" (whatever *that* means -- let's not get all Platonic on yo ass). Or that there isn't pleasure to be derived from doing it....
James Tiptree jr. She is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. And so full of insight about what makes (some) people tick that she still makes me cry, on the...
... Oh, yes. (Then again, if we were telepathic, would we not want some vacation to be alone in our heads?) But, yes, art is first and foremost a way of saying...
In a message dated 7/1/02 3:41:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Playing devil's advocate here--if you take this statement to it's logical conclusion, aren't...
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
larsi@...
Jul 1, 2002 2:41 pm
... There are plenty of authors I like, but Delany is among those few authors that does inspire passion -- mostly frantic anticipation when there's a new book...
In a message dated 7/1/02 9:20:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... You could gossip in front of the Mona Lisa, too. You could write a song that is full of...
In a message dated 7/1/02 9:20:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... That's a basic creative writing tool: you don't have a character say "I love you", you have the...
<<therefore, the best art is the most popular art?>> "Best" assigns a value I not only did not designate, but expressly avoided. I clearly wrote: <<on the...
<I ; I've long maintained that art must be conveying something to someone -- emotion, experience, information -- or it has failed no matter how well executed...
... No, I think that unless it is communicating to at least one other person, it is therapy, not art. It all ties up with the things Earnest Newboy says about...
... as passionately about as some do SRD?>>> I think it's great to feel passionate about literature in general, and each author who has a distinct style has...
In a message dated 7/1/02 1:52:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... This seems like an arbitrary judgement. An art object is a thing--as I stated before,...
<<I catch your meaning, that if art is written for the trunk, it's not fulfilling as communication. I just don't think that trunk art is any less a piece of...
<<I understand the point SRD was making here, but this is an extremely subjective point>> But issues of value, meaning, whether a thing is "art" are *all* ...
... as > Anyone ever read William T Vollman? Someone mentioned Pynchon; his books are great. That's a whole other list though; i want nothing to do with those....
Delany & Zelazny are often mentioned in the same breath -- at least they used to be. I like some Zelazny a lot, and though I don't think Zelazny wrote...
In a message dated 7/1/02 3:32:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Well, someone decided that painting, dance, writing, photography, etc. are works of art. All...
In a message dated 7/1/02 5:20:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Hey, if you're gonna quote my ideas, I'm going back to my original plan and stealing yours!...
... etc. are works of art.> What I think is more difficult (if not impossible) is deciding that something *isn't* art. ... something is created AS art, it IS...
... Erickson, too. ...and in a demonstration that There Are No Accidents, Erickson is enormously influenced by Phil Dick. I'd long suspected as much, and then...
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Proietti Salvatore
salproi@...
Jul 2, 2002 12:16 am
Agreed. But this makes me all the more curious about how to integrate the few non-urban moments into that dialectic. One thing seems clear, there is no such...
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Proietti Salvatore
salproi@...
Jul 2, 2002 12:16 am
From: gerhard hope < ... -- this ... Nicely put. The other name that I keep thinking of when I think of readers' reactions to a writer in terms of personal...
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Proietti Salvatore
salproi@...
Jul 2, 2002 12:16 am
From: gerhard hope < ... Yes, absolutely, though probably many would not take Dhalgren as novel with dystopian aspects--leaving too much of its complexity out...
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Proietti Salvatore
salproi@...
Jul 2, 2002 12:16 am
Yes, the center of the interest is always on "subaltern" characters, whatever the "locale" may be, the exploration of their existence however glitzy or sordid...
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Proietti Salvatore
salproi@...
Jul 2, 2002 12:16 am
From: Ralph Dumain < ... If I remember correctly, the issue is touched upon very directly in Silent Interviews, and this is indeed a crucial question--one...
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Proietti Salvatore
salproi@...
Jul 2, 2002 12:16 am
From: Steve Maxey < ... I agree. Power-relations are there and destroy the romance; no wishful thinking can cancel Korga's status as a former slave and now as...
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Proietti Salvatore
salproi@...
Jul 2, 2002 12:27 am
From: <Johnwlsh6@...> ... passionately ... If what you want is one name, then let it be PKD. Best--Salvatore...
In a message dated 7/1/02 8:30:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, salproi@... ... I have a dozen or more PKD books, and am in awe of his talent. In relation to a...
... I quote from the interview at this URL: http://www.id- online.de/ufo/pkdint.htm Dick: That's right. Now, I was told this by an editor-in-chief who's not...
In a message dated 7/1/02 8:47:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Johnwlsh6@... ... The second PKD should be SRD. Maybe I don't read about PKD's mental problems...
