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On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, david wrote:
> Louigi Verona wrote:

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>>  Real talent leads a person.

>

> The whole idea "real talent leads a person" is one of the fallacies

> that came from the Romantic movement. As if the "artist" was some

> special divine being, possessed by the spirit of the gods.

No, I think there is some truth to that, that artistic inclination will

drive someone.  I tried to quit music for several years, because of a

lot of the same reasons we've been talking about...the state of music in

the 90's and 2000's.  I came back to it for reasons I couldn't justify

even to myself.  I simply had to write songs.  It didn't even matter if

I could find reason to tell myself why.
> Also, some of the Romantics were insane (the reasons don't matter).

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> Back then, insanity was frequently not treated at all - the insane who

> weren't a danger to others were left to wander their own lives ...

That happens now in big cities too.  I live in Chicago, and I once saw

a man standing on a bus stop bench with a newspaper held up in one

hand, screaming at traffic as it drove by.  People mostly just ignored

him.  I don't know if he was an artist, but he was probably insane.  :)
Still, it's probably better than the 50's when they used to use mental

patients for drug experiments and give them shock treatments.
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+ UNIX Systems Admin	 +  banging on a million typewriters will

+ University of Chicago	 +  eventually reproduce the entire works of

+ Physical Sciences Div. +  Shakespeare.  Now, thanks to the Internet,

+ James Franck Institute +  we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky

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