I feared briefly for Nabokov—it wouldn’t be the first time an illiterate mob came to burn his books—but I realized that today’s inquisitors are too illiterate to have him in their sights.https://twitter.com/laurakipnis/status/941536500734464000 …
No, all these things are entirely irrelevant to art itself. Art is a transcendental category. To maintain the attention required for capturing a conscious state, that state must be of intense interest to the subject. The nature of interest is often pain, horror or fascination
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