Re: Cap's bad old days :)
Florie Sommers (writeflorie@hotmail.com)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 07:58:18 -0800 (PST)
Matt-
I agree that there should be equal funding (if not more) for the arts
and corp. bail-outs. They should also be seen as equally important to
the county.
Florie
>From: Matthew_Stevenson@baylor.edu
>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: Re: Cap's bad old days :)
>Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:05:44 -0600
>
>Camille sides with Ms. Virginia Woolf. Artists need a "room of their
own" in
>which to practice and perfect their genius.
>Jim takes the side of a professor I once had who pointed out that
Chaucer
>never had this "room of his own", nor did Hemingway.
>
>I for one feel that if the government is going to spend millions
bailing out
>corporations and farmers it shouldn't begrudge the huddled masses a
federally
>funded arts community...Matt Stevenson
>
>On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:18:28 +1100 verona_beach@geocities.com (Camille
>Scaysbrook) wrote:
>
>>
>>Jim wrote:
>>> Talent -- no, genius -- finds a way in any system, and more often
than
>>> not it's a pretty difficult way.
>>
>>Yeah ... so what happens to the 90% who fall along the way? Even
geniuses
>>get sick and tired and need to pay the rent. It's a very
over-romanticised
>>view of genius for you to take - more and more I realise it's not what
you
>>know but who; there's so much tosh that gets out there, gets
published, and
>>somehow finds its way into millions of hands that sometimes I think
that
>>true talent - that is, originality, danger and innovation - is the
direct
>>opposite of an advantage.
>>
>>Camille
>>verona_beach@geocities.com
>>@ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
>>@ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
>
>
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