she was so lovely that
Beauty
she was so lovely that
Beauty
And the one who says "mine" about the greatest number of things is, according to the game which they've agreed to among themselves, the one they consider the most happy. I don't know the point of all this, but it's true.
amazing.
Art removes objects from the automatism of perception in several ways.
This is really fascinating, art stems from the subconscious mind. earlier when I said "everyone is creative, artist simply linger on the creative inspiration long enough to articulate them." I meant that the creative inspiration above mentioned, is the subconscious mind. Artists feel around their subconscious and pull out feelings that they can't articulate, but can materialize, like a color. A color can't be articulated, but it can be shown. And the sentence I'm annotating adds to that concept, by implying that art is at war with the subconscious mind. Its goal is to pull things out of the subconscious mind and make you conscious of them.
he technique of art is to make objects "unfamiliar," to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged. A
the purpose of art is to make it so that you feel the emotions you felt the first time you perceived something, before it was downloaded into your subconscious mind.
mages are given to poets; the ability to remember them is far more important than the ability to create them.
Everyone is creative, artist simply linger on the creative inspiration long enough to articulate them.
music
when ever I listen to music, my mind always drifts to imagined images that accompany the music.
Art is thinking in images."
film is thinking in images.
us
Pretty confusing read. There are one or two things I take away and I think help me better understand fairy tales but theres alot of confusing clutter as well.
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I could see how this ties in to fairy tales. In a fairy tale you should abstract out the core elements: theme, devices, trope. Fairy tales must be written and read from a distance. Eureka.
Distant reading: where distance, let me repeat it, is a condition of knowledge: it allows you to focus on units that are much smaller or much larger than the text: devices, themes, tropes
I'm doing that with this writing piece because it is way to long.
the more ambitious the project, the greater must the distance be.
I interpret this as, if you want to have a broad understanding of something you can not also have a detailed understanding of it. If you want to synthesis lots of info, you can't to deeply analyze lots of detail
the destiny of a culture
It does seem like globalization is spreading.
‘Interference [is] a relationship between literatures, whereby a . . . source literature may become a source of direct or indirect loans
This sentence may as well be a string of randomly placed words because I am processing none of this information.
sixty thousand
An AI could read all of these.
planetary system.
uhhhh could mean the literature around us is interconnected and influence each other indirectly just like our planetary system orbits in its exact manner because of the gravitational effect the planets have on each other? I'm also taking astronomy right now so this could be me projecting.
National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible
this is fascinating coming from Marx, his ideas inspired national one sidedness and narrow-mindedness.
national literature doesn’t mean much
This statement was made before the rise of nationalism and national literacy at the beginning of the 20th century. When books like Mein Kampf and The State And The Revolution were published. This statement didn't age well.
floor
reminiscent of animal farm.
after.
It seems to me that fairytales are used to indoctrinate fundamental life lessons into a child's mind with out them recognizing that they are being taught a lesson. Sugar coating hard truths that ever person must know to function in the outside world (Lessons like don't trust strangers in Little Red Riding Hood to an extent, or don't trust someone who is to kind in Hansel & Gretel) in compelling narratives that will get a child to listen with out feeling like they're being taught.
there is no reality that is subordinated to any other.
Sounds like surrealism to me.
In my story, every cross-dressing mammal is as real as a girl as a cat as a bird as a chicken-legged house as a donkey-skinned girl on the run from a lecherous father.
Is there a difference between high fantasy and fairy tales?
When I edit fairy-tale books and ask other authors to work with the old stories, there is no predetermination as to how they will perform this assigned task. It is up to them what techniques they will use to spin old gold into new black and white font.
It would be interesting to read 1 fairy tale, adapted by several different writers, in order to highlight the difference in personalization.
reader room to experience – to invent –
I understand this as, the writer of these fairy tales keeps things vague and broad so that anyone can insert their own imaginations into a story and make it personally impactful. Almost a co-creation between writer & reader.
emotional planes
David Lynch has described his films as emotional planes. Perhaps he translates the Fairy Tale Way in to a filmmaking technique.
flatness
I wonder in what sense he uses the word flatness. How does it fit into this context?
Genius of our Country
Blatant eurocentrism.
These Descriptions raise a pleasing kind of Horrour in the Mind of the Reader,
Strange use of capitals and spelling, some form of old english?
otions which we have imbibed in our Infanc
This raises the question, are these tales assimilated in our infancy? Or do they arise from the fears implanted in our biology. If its part of our biology, whether we were imbibed with these tales by "nannys and old women" as babies or not, they are apart of us.
and must work altogether out of his own Invention.
At this point in history it seems to me like there certainly is a template that fantasy/Fairie tale writers can follow.