Subject: Re: A Perfect Day for German Poetry
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 12 2001 - 17:27:00 GMT
I'll have to ditto you there, Paul. I just didn't even consider that
Kesey's work could have that intent -- it'd take someone in Scottie's
position to see such effects -- which were something like people being
afraid of the beach after seeing "Jaws." The plus side is that such
works can expose abuses by various industries, make them real to the
public, and hopefully provoke reform.
Jim
PAUL KENNEDY wrote:
>
> Wow!
>
> I hardly know where to begin. Scottie's denunciation of the Cuckoo's
> Nest was deeply moving, coming whence it came, and delivered with such
> passion.
>
> It's so easy for simple lay folk, like myself, to ignore the very
> "real" consequences that a work of art can often have.... Should Moby
> Dick be blamed for any resurgence (or decline) in mid-19th-century
> Massachusetts whaling? Should JDS be blamed for any suicides by
> super-sensitive-mythopoetic seers in the years since S:aI was published?
> (Let alone Mark Chapman....)
>
> I think not, although it's interesting to see Scottie defending
> virtually proto-Marxist arguments for the social responsibility of art.
>
> (Is "Awakenings" the only good film about shrinks?)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
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