Art Attack

[Worm]

concentration camps were never necessary - dictators are false rulers - people are allowed to live their lives as they believe is right - the dependency on society is smaller than the politicians believe


long live lady liberty

[Silvio]

As well as being afficianados of Dostoevsky and probably his numerous contemporaries, do many of the readers also harbour
their own creative ambitions? I'm quite overtuigd that a life without
some kind of creative outlet is seriously deficient, unfortunately few
of us are encouraged to find what their medium might be. It doesn't
mean that because one isn't musical or a natural draftsman, that
one just 'isn't artistic'. Finding one's medium is half the problem.
I write songs, play guitar and bass , draw with great enthusiasm and
little skill ( I love Daumier) and write a bit. Only really successfully in
play /screenplay form.
One of the most difficult things is coming to terms with one's own
mediocrity. Even the masters produced crappy work, we just aren't
exposed to them. And in my experience the great songs come flying
out as fast as one can write them down. One channels them rather
than actively compose them. As Andre Gide puts it,
"Every work of art is a collaboration between God and the artist and
the less the artist does the better".
Unlike other faiths the artistic canon is a palpable source of solace,
inspiration, comeradeship. Never more so when writers like Dostoevsky are prepared to explore the least laudable parts of
humanity that we all try to conceal.
Silvio

[Worm]

personality doesn't have a nationality

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http://www.littlebluelight.com/lblphp/intro.php?ikey=12

[Silvio]

Personality may not have nationality, but languages have
personalities, else Rilke would have kept writing in German
rather than French and Russian.(Thanks for the blue light link)

[Worm]

The evil in some people can be very comical, no?exposing the evil of some people must be done very slowly, else they will become angry at the people who are better and find ways to cover it up.

[Worm]

the age of the consumer

[Worm]

the first improvements that i've seen of the board look great - great job!


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how come the Americans use the word "fuck" so much?  there's more richness in your language than that - monotone useage of the language - reflect

[Worm]

een thuis is gemaakt uit liefde - 2ehands papegaaie-echo's van andere omstandigheden zijn vergane inhoud, het is schijn geworden

[Worm]

you don't really need anything to have a great day

[Worm]

in the old days people would have and use two or three first names
because they were so beautiful
and because they were together so much

[Scoundrel]

I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool ya

And even though it all went wrong
I will stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

 - Leonard Cohen

[Ivan the tolerable]

Being only able to speak English I'm unaware how often Europeans
swear. Certainly 'Fuck' is an all purpose word that plugs up the holes
in one's vocabulary while being a release valve for impotent rage, I
suppose. According to Henry Miller, Sex without love is the
epitome of human futility and only bad language sufficiently renders it's
emptyness. Ofcourse the overuse to which you refer merely debases
the power of these dirty words. However it's not just 'bad language'
that gets this treatment. The way words like 'sick', 'wicked' and
'outrageous' (once a powerful word)  are bandied around and their
meaning altered is vile for those who love language.
By the way, in some European countries in the 16,17th centuries like
The Netherlands, there was in fact often only one name and a surname
that was a simple patronymic. I love the way Russian has the varieties
of addressing one another, depending on how close the relationship was.
What's also odd is how a country like Indonesia, the largest Muslim population in the world, mostly get aroung with just one name- as if it
was a whole nation of Madonnas, Cher, Elvis, Homer, Goethe. You'd
think they'd need more. Imagine looking up your friend's phonr number
and he's just called Ali or Mohammed.

[Worm]

do you know the 'you're nothing without me' joke already?

[Worm]

if a pen is a stick in the right hands, then that writer is a ...

 




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