Subject: RE: Daumier-Smith and Empathy
ZazieZazie@hetnet.nl
Date: Tue Jul 24 2001 - 06:22:34 GMT
>>him. In part this is a deliverance from a creeping solipsism for
>>Daumier-Smith. The wall theme is present in "For Esme". What does one wall
>>say to the other? Meetcha at the corner. without this meeting at the corner
>>we are either isolated behind our own wall or just solipsisticaly assume
>>that anothers experience is the same behind their wall as our own.
Okay, so I'm late, sue me.
Anyway, I think Pauls take on the wall-joke is way too analytic, isn't this exaclty the hyper cerebral attitude, which Woody Allen is ridiculing so much?
My grandfather told me that heard this joke from American soldiers during the war.
Of course, one can see anything in anything. Or everything in everything. Or anything in every .... whatever. But I just hate it when people overanalyze literature so much, i feel that they could wring water from a stone! Paul is sorta on the border of claiming his explanations are the true motives of the writer, which is always dangerous.
And also, I am not against attaching meaning to what you read, I mean you can see a pin-cushion and see a major filosofical addendum to Leonardo da Vinci. Or you see a pebble on the beach and just know it stands for the explanation of Mona Lisa's smile.
Just watch out for the prophet-business.
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