Creativity

[filkferengi]

Here's an interesting article about it:

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/wolfe200505270758.asp

Comments

personal vs professional

[p-o-u-n-c-e-r.livejournal.com]

I used to be somewhat interested in the personal lives of creative contemporary celebrities but I found too often for too many such souls that their lives were so despicable my knowledge of those lives spoiled, for me, my appreciation of their art.

Oddly the lives of celebrities of the 1930's -- George Kaufman, Noel Coward, Harpo Marx, Dorothy Parker -- don't ruin their art for me. A different set of sins, I suppose, and that set not one that I feel prone to.

Re: personal vs professional

[filkferengi]

Or do you think it's the distance in time that lends a beneficent blurring?

I know what you mean, though; sometimes TMI is a dangerous thing.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

This is going to sound really shallow, but, as interesting as the article is, I'd have done much better if the author had found *anyone* else to dissect rather than Flannery O'Connor (about whom I have vividly horrible memories dating from a sophomore literature class ). Kind of hard to get past that...

Megaera
darting out of range

[filkferengi]

I don't have any direct experience because I'm the one who, rather than do 20th century literature in high school, opted for a tragedy class, because I thought it'd be less depressing. I suspect I was right.

All authors aside, though, I thought the ideas were pretty interesting. I especially liked the Sayers stuff, probably due to greater familiarity with her.