At 1:58 AM +0000 1/3/02, Christopher Walker wrote:
>My own view, FWIW, would be that the road from anonymity
>to individuation isn't necessarily a one way street, that cultural
>transmission is more a matter of intertextuality than of copyright and that
>(as I tried to suggest in what I said before about Presley and 'the blues')
>purely individual creativity may be distinctly moot.
And mine, also FWIW, is that "purely individual creativity" doesn't
exist; that all acts of creativity are conditioned by the social
circumstances in which we find ourselves. Especially linguistic
creations. Selves are very permeable and multiple, and often define
themselves extremely contradictorily, more so than perhaps most of us
realise. To exist within a self is often to create the illusion that
one is without contradictions; after all, people generally experience
themselves as a single entity. (Most of the time...perhaps a self
deception for the sake of sanity.) However, Kafka's self as a
perfect circle isn't entirely an illusion either, or rather it's an
illusion which makes its own reality.
Best
Alison
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