NP: a Junot Diaz remark (from an interview)

[Madeleine Maudlin]

Without me having to, who is Junot Diaz?  That universal that arises from
the particular--which one, and is it derived from the artist, or the critic
deriving insights from the work?  What is an insight, if not imagination?
 She writes :neat, tidy little laws", and I can dig that; I think little of
those damn thermal laws myself.  Evolution,

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> “Thermodynamics has these neat, tidy little laws that hold true, and
> evolution has all these great little principles that hold true. The one
> principle that we have in literature and art is that the universal arises
> from the particular."
>
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