How about pleasuring for art -at the moment in the form of a glass of wine
-and tasting the flavour of the poetryetc emails
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Sent: 24 April 2009 15:47
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Subject: suffering for art?
This may be on a tangent from the possibility of being corrupted by a
grant, but I found this comment by Marianne Faithful in response to
that question: 'did suffering help you as an artist'? She says, 'I
don't think it helped me. I can't tell for sure. It's possible , but
mostly when I look back at that time I just see it as a waste. Drugs
caused me to waste a lot of time and caused me a lot of unnecessary
pain.'
She goes on, 'I consider myself an artist and suffering has nothing to
do with it.'
To which I say, Yea, verily.
Doug
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And the mercy of the fallen
Who say they have no claim to know what's right
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