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"From [the] pov [of dramatic realization in per formative ritual], meaning is never simply uncovered/discovered as already or essent. present in artwork/narrative artifact. Rather it is a dynamic interp. process involv. artist, artwork itself & reception. Vital: that is found engaging, existentially signif. emot. resonant. Myth should call 4 intellectual/emot. reaction [as] good story or sign, or effective ad does.
— Jan 21, 2016 09:16PM
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"What was often ignored by urban sophisticates in the film [Junebug 2005] & more generally...was the Southern evangelical reverence for the acute contradictions of human nature, the universality of revivalist need for a periodic re-creation/recreation of mind & body, and strangeness of some inner spirit lodged in all external forms of flesh & matter."
— Jan 20, 2016 09:16PM
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"Quoting the historian of art and insanity John MacGregor, Bottoms notes that an 'artist is a man who creates a parallel universe, who doesn't want an imposed universe inflicted on him.' And that is the very 'definition of insanity.' "
— Jan 20, 2016 08:43PM
Tokoro
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"...it is never a matte that religion uses or appropriates art simply to embellish some conventional message...nor is art simply the inevitable secular replacement of religion—where human taste 4 beauty, sublime, funky, ironic, & strange supplants our need 4 some kind of imagined sacred, spirit, or gods. Perhaps the art act itself...as much as any specific content—is the religious message."
— Jan 20, 2016 08:11PM
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"As the history of religions has amply documented without any help from Christopher Hitchens, saints are not not always saintly. But this not does not mean they are not real saints."
— Jan 20, 2016 07:16PM
