[MD] Art and Stories

[MarshaV]

Reading on...  Wonderful book?  Not!!!  

At the moment it leads me to wonder if there is a word 
for writing with your own excrement.   






On Jun 16, 2010, at 7:17 AM, MarshaV wrote:

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> Hi Steve,
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> It took me a while to move with this telling.
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>    "Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field.  
>    "But they're all we have."
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> Wonderful book!
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> Marsha
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>> On Jun 1, 2010, at 7:49 AM, Steven Peterson wrote:
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>>> Hi All,
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>>> Just finished Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel, the latest from the
>>> author of Life of Pi--one of my all-time favorites:
>>> 
>>> "Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be  
>>> real, but it’s true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to
>>> emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it
>>> may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixe
>>> meaning bolted to it. If history doesn’t become story, it dies to
>>> everyone except the historian. Art is the suitcase of history,
>>> carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed,
>>> art is memory, art is vaccine."
>>> 
>>> “In addition to the knowledge of history...we need the understanding
>>> of art. Stories identify, unify, give meaning to. Just as music is
>>> noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a
>>> story is life that makes sense."
>>> 
>>> Have you read this? I'm not sure what to say about that last bit right
>>> now other than that it grabbed me. I'd be interested in hearing your
>>> thougts while I wait for the dust to settle.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Steve
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>> On June 1, 2010, at 11:35 PM, Marsha Valkyr wrote: 
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>> Hi Steve,
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>> I'll give the book a try.  Thanks for the suggestion.   
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>> 
>> Marsha   
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