All the arts are infantile? Are you perhaps misreading childlike delight?
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> Subject: A tentative analysis
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> Poetry, like all the arts, is the revenge of instinct on culture.
> It's thus intrinsically sadistic, narcissistic, and unable to
> distinguish fantasy from reality. It is, in other words, infantile.
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