this has all deteriorated into semantic woobling. I enjoy a good
wooble now & then (& Dominic's reply made me l.o.l.), but I think that
there's a difference between the senses of "honesty" & the senses of
"sincerity" here that we're not paying attention to:
honesty -- is simply lack of pretense. hard to do.
sincerity -- is taking honesty a step too far, making it grander &
sadder than it all is ('evangelical').
that's just me though. :)
KS
On 06/06/07, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Without sincerity poetry becomes linguistic hijinks.
>
> jd
>
> On 6/6/07, Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > "When I use the word *rebel* for the artist, I do not refer to
> > revolutionary
> > or to such things as taking over the dean's office; that is a different
> > matter. Artists are generally soft-spoken persons who are concerned with
> > their inner visions and images. But that is precisely what makes them
> > feared
> > by any coercive society.
> > ...
> > They love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form,
> > just
> > as God created form out of chaos in Genesis.2
> >
> > from The Courage to Create, Rollo May
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Joseph Duemer
> Professor of Humanities
> Clarkson University
> [sharpsand.net]
>
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