"restoring / With a new verse the ancient rhyme." CR |
And they are that with which we create the future. Point well taken pm Tom Colket <[log in to unmask]> wrote: P> Art is prophetic; it can even create the future.
The Modernists had an even more startling theory: the present changes the past. For example, consider this passage from Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent" ====================================
". . . the difference between the present and the past is that the conscious present is an awareness of the past in a way and to an extent which the past's awareness of itself cannot show. Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know." ==================================== -- Tom --
> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 01:45:45 -0700 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Meeting the stranger > To: [log in to unmask] > > The future is always strange; science is always about the past. Art is prophetic; it can even create the future. One can't get anything more out of date than the big bang. Fiat lux!!! |