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truepennyHave finished The Second Maiden's Tragedy. Go me.
Feeling lazy and v. sleepy and not wanting to get on with the writing part.
Also, I need to say something:
ART DOES NOT HAVE TO BE DIDACTIC TO BE ART. It doesn't have to have a moral message. The good don't have to triumph and the wicked don't have to be punished. And if you're staring at a Jacobean play which you want to argue for as a work of art, you do not have to bend over backwards until your head touches your heels in order to make it be "moral." The playwright's getting along just fine without your help, thanks. It's like insisting that ballet can only be performed with the entire corps in combat boots. And it's very, VERY tedious.
Okay. Better now.
Feeling lazy and v. sleepy and not wanting to get on with the writing part.
Also, I need to say something:
ART DOES NOT HAVE TO BE DIDACTIC TO BE ART. It doesn't have to have a moral message. The good don't have to triumph and the wicked don't have to be punished. And if you're staring at a Jacobean play which you want to argue for as a work of art, you do not have to bend over backwards until your head touches your heels in order to make it be "moral." The playwright's getting along just fine without your help, thanks. It's like insisting that ballet can only be performed with the entire corps in combat boots. And it's very, VERY tedious.
Okay. Better now.
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Date: 2003-07-21 11:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-21 10:15 pm (UTC)Must Fiction be Moral
Date: 2003-07-22 03:02 am (UTC)A lot of people who are into SERIOUS & MODERN (the Caps are obligitory) fiction would say that no fiction that is moral can be good.
Some typesof fiction seem to require moralizing. Could you have a Quest Story that was just about someone tryoing to make a living