Re: lead, kindly light...
Camille Scaysbrook (c_scaysbrook@yahoo.com)
Mon, 09 Aug 1999 10:53:55 +1000
Jim wrote:
> But, at any rate, the fact that we do, to some degree, make a distinction
> between people and ideas is a step in the right direction. And yep, it's
> essentially a Christian value judgment.
Again, I draw on the example of D.W. Griffith's `Birth of a Nation' -
revolutionary artistically, pretty bloody dodgy ideologically. When I
studied it at University it was the first time I had ever considered the
idea of the two things needing to be separated and appreciated (or
otherwise) separately. It's a very difficult area. It would be a very, very
hard thing, for example, to like the writing style of Mein Kampf while
being in total opposition to Hitler's ideas. I'm of two (or more) minds
about it myself, Postmodernist that I am I think in the end I believe the
writer is part and parcel of the big old package of Book and Experience we
call a Text. We'd have a pretty different reaction to Shakespeare if we
knew he was a woman. Or a Nazi.
Yours with another cup of Ginseng tea,
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
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