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Genius? I think so.

Mon Jun 29, 2009, 5:50 PM
"...Any artist knows that the space between the stage where the work is too unformed to have committed itself and the stage where it is too late to improve can be as thin as a needle. Genius perhaps consists in opening out this needle-like area until it covers almost the whole of the working time. Most artists, through sheer idleness, weariness, inability to attend, drift again and again and again from the one stage straight into the other, in spite of good resolutions and the hope with which each new work begins. This is of course a moral problem, since all art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. There is an analogous transition in the everyday proceedings of the moral agent. We ignore what we are doing until it is too late to alter it. We never allow ourselves quite to focus upon moments of decision; and these are often in fact hard to find even if we are searching for them. We allow the vague pleasure-seeking annoyance-avoiding tide of our being to hurry us onward until the moment when we announce that we can no other."

-from The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch

Thought it was appropriate, since it's about, well, art. And Iris Murdoch is amazing.


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Thanks for adding my poem (again?). I thought you already had, but perhaps I was mistaken. In any case, I love seeing your name - it makes me laugh every time, and I love seeing the creme brulees. So I'm glad that you added/readded it. :)
I had...but then somehow I accidentally clicked the "remove favorite" button and I had to re-fave it.
Haha I'm glad it makes you laugh. :)

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I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where I left it.
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"13 pi over 6 does not equal pi over 6. It's just kind of one of those 'duh' things."
-Dr. Harnett during Math Analysis
Hmmm. All right.
Haha try it! You'll like it!

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I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where I left it.
:ninja:

"13 pi over 6 does not equal pi over 6. It's just kind of one of those 'duh' things."
-Dr. Harnett during Math Analysis
XD
What is this conversation about again?

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"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."-Oscar Wilde
I.......don't remember. Was this the one about my face?

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I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where I left it.
:ninja:

"13 pi over 6 does not equal pi over 6. It's just kind of one of those 'duh' things."
-Dr. Harnett during Math Analysis
XD That sounds great all by itself. "Was this the one about my face?"
Yes, Ninja, yes.

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"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."-Oscar Wilde
Bahahahaha when you put it that way, it does. Well, I mean, I guess that's how I put it, but still. "What were we talking about?" "Your face." "Oh yeah."
Yes. Well. I've decided that it is, in fact, quite useful. I'll keep it.

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I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where I left it.
:ninja:

"13 pi over 6 does not equal pi over 6. It's just kind of one of those 'duh' things."
-Dr. Harnett during Math Analysis
Oh it is. LlamallamallamallamallamallamaDUCK. Even though that's not how it goes...

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I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where I left it.
:ninja:

"13 pi over 6 does not equal pi over 6. It's just kind of one of those 'duh' things."
-Dr. Harnett during Math Analysis
Pssh, incidental. ;3

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"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."-Oscar Wilde
Of course. XD

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I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where I left it.
:ninja:

"13 pi over 6 does not equal pi over 6. It's just kind of one of those 'duh' things."
-Dr. Harnett during Math Analysis

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