Discussing the matriculation of art with Beth

[theboysgonehome]

So, there’s a bunch of stuff in the Detroit Institute of Art’s modern and contemporary wing that was never meant to be in a museum. It was art that was intended for people to interact with: to touch and play with and rearrange. On the museum plaque it even says, “this is not how this art was intended to be experienced, but preservation is the job

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[nyw]

I've had an interest in curation and preservation and museums in geenral, lately, and this is right up my alley. I love your analysis of Fight Club, I love how it contradicts the very essence of Fight Club. And I can't help but wonder if that very essence might mean that it will resist anthology. But then again it takes a discerning editor with a sense of humour to make that decision to leave it out rather than to preserve it in literary memory.

I wonder, though, about the purposes of anthologies - they're supposed to be samplers, but like all samplers they are meant to be the introduction to the buffet available beyond.

[nyw]

general* speelchek fail

[theboysgonehome]

Samplers, and also a walk-through for students. The references, allusions, and unfamiliar language is explained for you by an editor who has decided on the hidden meanings for you. I understand that there are accepted interpretations to the canon, but I would always prefer to formulate my own before being told the accepted idea.

I just read the selections of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs that some editor decided to include in an anthology of American Literature, after having read the entire book last semester for an African American Literature class. What's left in the anthology is a shadow of the moving, intense piece of literature. It's the bare bones of it, and it left some of my classmates with such a strange, skewed impression of the story

[nubeinchild]

I have never read Fight Club.

You are ashamed to know me now, yes?

[theboysgonehome]

lol, never.

But you should read it.