re Re: NP: Twain, Part One
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Thu Jan 17 23:27:43 CST 2002
Mark Wright AIA wrote:
>
> All narrative art that is not entirely self-referential must, it seems
> to me, "exploit" someone. It is even possible to exploit one's own
> fortunes and misfortunes to manipulate the emotional and intellectual
> responses of others. Isn't that what artists do: organize symbols and
> signs to manipulate the emotional and intellectual responses of others?
> They operate on a continuum that includes the Aboriginal Musician, the
> Shaman, the Prophet, the Salesman, the Architect, the Advertising
> Director, the Teacher, the Polititian, the Pornographer, the Puppeteer,
> the Painter, and the Poet.
I can tell that you simply placed these vocations on that operational
continuum willy-nilly. The alliteration may have been an unconscious
attempt not to offend me, as after teacher, the politician and
pornographer are pee-peed by the Puppeteer, Painter, and the Poet.
We might re-write it as,
Puppeteer, Poet, Painter, Teacher, Shaman, Prophet, Aboriginal Musician,
Advertising
Director, Salesman, Pornographer, Politician, Architect.
Or should the politician come after the architect?
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