Re: "You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art."

[joseph berg]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:53 PM, William Conger <w-con...@sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> But she stuffed rocks into her pockets and killed her senses in watery
> suicide.
>  Admittedly, a huge loss and due to illness.  That quote below is ripe with
> suggetive irony....a metaphor of sexual abuse in childhood?
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> WC
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- Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets
write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance
of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange
alchemy of the spirit.

Upton Sinclair