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- Subject: Re: random thoughts about sandman...
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 13:33:00 EST
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- In article <BzvMpq.Gw0@uceng.uc.edu>
- sweide@uceng.uc.edu (Steven Weide) writes:
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- >
- >In article <1992Dec26.043531.9271@netcom.com> dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes:
- >>zonker@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Regis):
- >>
- >>Another observation: Last issue we were given to understand that Destruction
- >>wasn't a very good artist. This issue we learned beyond a doubt that he's
- >>a rotten poet. Are we to understand that he's been dabbling like this for
- >>the last three centuries? Must be frustrating to quit the destruction
- >>business and then find out that that's all you're any good at.
- >>
- >
- >It seems only right that he is a lousy artist and poet. He is Destruction
- >after all. His job is to tear things down, not create them.
- >
-
- Two thoughts; perhaps somewhat contradictory.
- We can (sort of) argue that destruction IS art; in destruction, we are
- trying to achieve a goal, and one can argue that the act of destroying IS
- an artistic process; and the rubbles are works of art. This harkens back
- to the idea that torture can be a work of art (gleamed from Gene Wolfe's
- Shadow of the Torturer) or even Gaiman's work (Doll's House where many
- of the mass murderers at the convention thought of themselves as artists.)
- However...
- Destruction is much more democratic than creating "art" (with its usual
- definition,) Not everyone can create a fine work of art, but anyone can
- destroy a fine piece of art (again, using its usual definition, which
- excludes destruction.) Only one in a million can create a Mona Lisa,
- or David, but any one of us with a ballpeen hammer can rip it up or crash
- it beyond repair.
-
- Of course, one can argue that it is as difficult to destroy "creatively"
- and well, as it is to create a work of art, but on the other hand, most of us,
- when we create (if we do at all) mediocre work of art, it will affect no one.
- On the other hand, we can all destroy something (perhaps not "artistically")
- which will affect at least a city. So if we take "destruction" as something
- akin to an artistic process, then it is only natural that destruction is
- a crude artist.
- It's so much easier to become famous by destroying rather than creating
- especially in the comic book field lately. All you have to do is kill a
- few people and eat them (Jeffery Dahmer: The UNauthorized Biography)
-
-
- Destruction: The Art for the Democratic Century?
-
- "The world has caught up with me and surpassed me. Ninety years ago, I
- was a freak. Today, I'm an amateur. The future isn't what you thought.
- It's what I am." ...Jack the Ripper in _Time after Time_
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- I got remote control and a color TV
- I don't change the channels so they must change me.
-
- I need a doctor for my pressure pills
- I nned a lawyer for my medical bills
- I need a banker to finance my home
- I need security to back my loan
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- I shouldn't bitch
- I shouldn't cry
- I'd start a revolution but I don't have time.
-
- Junsok Yang (YANJUNA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu)
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