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The essence and moral of this quite wonderful piece: “No one wants to listen to an artist describe their work, but everyone wants to be told my rib story.”
by pavlov 3y ago
The essence and moral of this quite wonderful piece:
“No one wants to listen to an artist describe their work, but everyone wants to be told my rib story.”
- bee_rider 3y agoThat’s interesting, I checked out around the rib story.
- ChainOfFools 3y agoartist fixes rib story = a how-to guide (expressed in the reciprocal "how-did" form) discussing the narrator's passage through a niche and mildly exotic experience. It answers a question the reader never asked, but potentially might have. whereas artist recounting his struggles = a series of open-ended "why-did" vignettes with none offering escape from a cycle of precarity, except for the obvious solution to discontinue throwing oneself on the sword of Art. a solution which is intentionally and elaborately avoided by a narrator who does not supply a relatable (never mind satisfying) motivation or justification. I may be giving him too much credit, but there's a decent chance the vague sense of being stifled by this brief immersion in a world fundamentally unsuited to your own nature is an intended effect.