The WrecognItions Read......

[Erik T. Burns]

i will continue to argue that WG is more concerned with the process than the
result, and more concerned with what drives men than where they go.
he isn't trying to define art; he is trying to define that which is worth
doing.

the crime is when you exchange the things worth being for the things worth
having.



On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> georgelazenby name
> The trick to being brilliant is so mercilessly exposing yourself to culture
> that
> being original is impossible, and so you just do.
>
> I do not know who this is, the actor? No verification check on twitter
> but....some amazing posts.
>
> I was/am trying to formulate this about a (possible) Recognitions theme:
> Gaddis
> has found one way to show/say that art is
> only "original'--art---when it embodies all the culture of our communal
> past?...??
>
> E.G. Shakespeare was so fuckin' brilliant because he was so uncommonly a
> common
> man?
>
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