--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > The arts are an especially rich source of sweet suffering. Or > maybe I'm listening to too much opera, and seeing too > many heavy movies. But artists seem to revel in mixing beauty > and pain. I figured that was not just an artist's trick, but > a reflection of life.
Something I've always wondered about: What happens to art in a (hypothetical) Age of Enlightenment? Can you take pain and suffering and struggle out of the mixture and have art just be about joy? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
