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Personally: It is Personal
Read more: Personally: It is PersonalRecently, someone told me not to take things so seriously. They told me that it is not personal, and I’d like to discuss the concept of taking something too personally, or, even better, being too sensitive to a subject at hand. Because, let’s be honest, isn’t everything personal in one way or another? For one,…
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How to Murder Art Correctly, or, Why Horror Allegories Work.
Read more: How to Murder Art Correctly, or, Why Horror Allegories Work.Vuelo de Brujas, by Francisco Goya The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Builders The deeper meaning of a text, if not deep enough, swallows the whole text like quicksand, leaving only a brief moment of understanding and no moment of reflection. The events, language, and implications – the surface of narrative – should be…
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Pursuit of Silence
Read more: Pursuit of SilenceI do not consider myself to be a particularly lonely person. In fact, I remember times when I would drive myself, and my poor parents, crazy for just having to be home on a random weekend afternoon rather than out in the world with a couple of people that we cherished. I detested having to…
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CIRCUMSTANTIAL
Read more: CIRCUMSTANTIALRecently, while in my Contemporary World Literature class, a quote that had a certain relation to the point I was making came to my mind. I could not figure out the author at the moment; but later I found out that it was philosopher José Ortega y Gasset. He said “I am me and my…
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Art about Art, Psychopaths About Directors
Read more: Art about Art, Psychopaths About DirectorsArt is said to be an expression of the inexpressible. It is about the things all other human expression cannot be about. But more often than not, what art really is about is making art. While an artist is creating, he might ponder politics, life, or love – but what he most certainly thinks about…
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