(Untitled)

[songfromsixties]

"Solomon's opinion implies that a publishable novel should cohere, or demonstrate unity among its verbal structures, in order to communicate clearly its meaning."
    -Joshua Kupetz, "The Straight Line Will Take You Only To Death-The Scroll Manuscript and Contemporary Literary Theory"

Substitute "publishable novel" with any form of art. Do you agree

Comments

[scottsnbritts]

I don't agree. I think sometimes you should have to work/think to figure out the meaning; it doesn't have to be clear. But with that being said, I don't want the meaning to be ridiculously unattainable either.

[super_torgo]

as long as they had some meaning in mind in the first place. sometimes i feel like some electronic "music" is just a terrible jumble of sounds that is terrible. hm, a bicycle ringing its bell layered on top of itself five times and then someone dropping silverware and then cows mooing. I HAVE DONE AN ART.
Also sometimes i think poetry is shitty if it just looks like someone flipped through the dictionary wrote down the tenth word on every page.

[burtonworshiper]

Nope. I think some things have more meaning when they aren't clear.

Although. That doesn't make it okay to slap some random words on a piece of paper and publish it.