Novel-Gazing

[David Morris]

Aren't we talking with these two posts about the difference between
"inspiration" and "perspiration?"  Aren't both necesary?  But isn't the prime
ingredient the Inspiration?  That is where art begins, at least it does for me.
 Experience and maturity further a Master at focusing Inspiration, sometimes...

David Morris

--- MalignD at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 11/14/02 6:27:51 PM, keithsz at concentric.net writes:
> << I think this is what sets great art in general, and Pynchon's in
particular, apart from any one element in the alchemical stew that is the
finished product. Invisible forces, beyond the author's egoic intent, are at
work in the creative process, taking the prima materia (which includes
philosophy, history, autobiography, politics, economics, etc) and transforming
it into something which transcends the working materials. An openpsyched reader
can be taken into this force field in a way that transports him or her into a
transegoic state in which new perceptual, conceptual, prenuptial, and voluptual
capabilities are awakened. That's why they call it a novel. >>
> 
> I would like to think that this is how literary art works, but I don't.  
> 
> Perhaps action painting worked similarly to this, but a novel, a work that is
the toil of, often, many years is, I think, far more controlled and deliberate
in its processes than what you describe above.  There are novels that have been
produced in ways similar to what you describe; Kerouac, I think worked this
way.  Wasn't The Subterraneans a product of writing quickly out a sort of bliss
state?  Not a very good novel.
> Individual sentences, parargraphs, passages maybe.  But a novel of
intelligence and complexity.  I don't think so ...



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