--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > I find it disconcerting, to say the least, to think that > in a genuine Age of Enlightenment a very large portion > of the human heritage of art of all types would no longer > have any appeal because the theme of so much of it is > surmounting (or succumbing to) struggle. Goodbye > Shakespeare, goodbye Wagner, goodbye Van Gogh, goodbye > Homer, goodbye Hemingway, goodbye Swan Lake, goodbye > Rachmaninoff, goodbye Picasso...
* * I wouldn't worry about it overmuch, Judy :-) (And FWIW, while in the decades since "Awakening" I have also gone through long phases of disinterest in fiction, art, etc. -- quite unlike my previous persona --, I am currently enjoying all the works of Michael Connelly, whose insights into police-work and investigation are delightful, as I do a fair bit of research too.)
