Did Vidal say that before or after he declared fiction writing dead in America? wc
----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, August 4, 2012 12:02:37 AM Subject: Re: is list dead? On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:32 PM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:52 AM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote: > >> ...I've written about this topic: Can Art Be Moral Again? (published on >> website www.neotericart.com)... > > > > Once upon a time, wasn't religion the source of morals?: > > - Cut off from the worship of the divine, leisure becomes laziness and > work inhuman. > > John Piper > Can the arts really serve to fill the void that is creatd once people have lost religion in their lives?: - Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. Gore Vidal
