True grace beauty, and sanity is so rare.
The loss of any of it is so hard so brutal so tragic to bear.
Part of my heart went with it.
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"...Fire Sale!"
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"I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it." -Marcel Duchamp
ReplyDeleteI hate Marcel Duchamp. I've heard him say in an interview that his goal was "to get rid of" art, an objective which the bottomlessly fake art establishment and its control freak gatekeepers have made their own, and which has served the great and ancient cult of beauty about as well as arson and vandalism have served architecture.
ReplyDelete"Contemporary art is a great fraud. It is not art." - Avelina Lésper
"Readymades are not art." - ibid
Z
They'll rebuild. It'll take quite a while, but making cathedrals always called for lots of patience. The loss isn't total; walls and towers are still standing, and even quite a bit of stained glass. My guess is the hard part will be finding masons sufficiently skilled to rebuild the vaulting properly. This isn't the kind of job where you just pour some cement in a plywwod box.
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You don't have to know anything at all about psychoanalysis to realize that this tower is in fact a giant phallus. Why use substitutes instead of the real thing?
ReplyDeleteI visited this cathedral several years ago and was not at all impressed with it. The surrounding areas with their lovely cafes were far more interesting. I see no point in rebuilding it. It's no great loss. In fact, rebuilding it would just be a big waste of money. I am always amazed at the illusions that fill peoples minds.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good thing you don't need to know anything at all to realize that. This must have assisted your insight considerably. But are sure it isn't just a cigar?
ReplyDeleteZ
Did the hunchback make it out safely? Now that's the question I want answered!
ReplyDeleteNotre Dame will be rebuilt.
ReplyDeleteThere is more love for it, and Art than any café or assorted high class Burger Kings. Some things matter. If it were a Temple to the Holy Boy or the fictitious Jebus no matter. It must be preserved,...rebuilt.
Beauty must live.
It seems hard wired into us like murder, and rape.
Beauty is one of the rare positive parts of our bio-circuitry. So must be encouraged at all costs.
Eh,...the Hunchback was laid off long ago. Not upscale enuff for the tourists.
ReplyDeleteHe was at home in his digs. Out in the Parisian 'burbs. Underclass housng where the Arabs, and poor have been deposited. Seems he slept through it.
As for Art.
ReplyDeleteThere's Art from the soul then there's shit. Hard to tell one from the other true. I'm thinking Modern Art.
This would have died a natural death over a century ago.
However the ownership class took a fancy to it.
From there graphics technicians as opposed to actual artists have been shitting it out by the metric ton to the applause of a wealthy few. They followed the money.
Our owners craved it even when some of their favorite technicians openly showed them it was all false.
Those cans of human shit. Anything that Warhol did. That jerk that literally makes $hundreds of millions having his under paid assistants paint different shades of poka dots on newspapers.
Bad money drives out good.
So a whole century, and now a fifth of a new one is smeared with it.
In the end it will collapse.
Much as the Tulip Craze economy of the Dutch did centuries ago.
This when everyone realized, "...hey this is bullshit. It's just fucking flowers."
In this spirit bulldoze the upscale cafes, and rebuild the fucking Cathedral.
It seems some people here have touched a nerve with you and Z.
ReplyDelete"and Brutus is an honourable man." James Joyce (Ulysses 5.105)
With all this talk about the fire, I am reminded of an answer Jean Cocteau gave when he was asked if he came home to find his house going up in flames, if he could save one thing, what would it be? He said: "The fire."
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