Re: More Chuckles from The Laughing Man
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Thu, 05 Aug 1999 15:56:29 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 8/4/99 11:28:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
BYRDS@papa.uncp.edu writes:
<< I realize I stopped making sense a few paragraphs ago. I can live with
that. Any questions, ask later, I'm spent. I'll apologize for the length
of this tomorrow, after I wake up from my coma.
--stephen icarust >>
It all sounds pretty good, but every time an artist/writer/whathaveyou sets
something down on paper it becomes independent of them. Even Joyce's
Portrait...it's highly autobiographical, but at the same time there's a good
deal of distance between the artist and his art. Remember the quote about
the artist being like the God of the creation? "Refined out of existence,
paring his fingernails"? That's Joyce's point of view (of God as well as art
:) ) even within the context of something so intimate.
I've done a lot of semi-autobiographical stuff myself, and no matter how
close to the real details I get, it's still not me.
Jim