--- In [email protected], "RoryGoff" <rorygoff@...> wrote: > > > > --- 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.)
(And have attempted a fair amount of art, poetry, playwriting, etc., as the Archetypal issues and tensions still interest and inspire me.)
