Not always the case Liz, and cite John Cage, Gerhard Ruhm and Nathalie
Sarraute for their Silences - well, thanks for the comments on choice and
sanitiy and homelessness. Perhaps we should leave it here, thanks
I seem to have been on this list a long time then!
And I agree with Doug, and feel that artists have to now get seriously
involved in actual inner political processes - and offer up deeep thinking
inside the caucus
cheers
R
----- Original Message -----
From: "Liz Kirby" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: mental illness--Ruark
> Sorry folks, fill your art with what empathy you choose,
> > but outside political will must accomodate the ongoing ongoing
ongoingness
> > of rich city-poor trash paradigm.
>
> What a conservative argument! It kind of boils down to 'the poor are
always with us'.
>
> To be silent is to hush it. I guess that art like poetry can
> > appear so useless and absent from the realness of the world.
>
> Poetry is speech not silence. The opposite of hush!
>
> Liz
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