Friday, March 27, 2009
"What did it just say?" Recently, our General Paper lessons have shifted topics to art, and we started off with attempts to comprehend an excerpt on Leo Tolstoy's "What is Art?".How hard is it to comprehend?
Really confusing. Can't figure out what exactly is going on.
The weirdness began when my friend began pointing out various lines in the excerpts and inserted innuendo into it. For example...
"...we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of intercourse between man and man."
You do know that there are other definitions of "intercourse", right?
Yeah, but at first glance it would often bring a double-take to the reader. Then there's this line...
"...it is not, as the aestetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy..."
I'm not exactly getting this one.
A "game" where man "lets off" his "stored-up energy"...
You can do that to a line like this? Whoa.
Oh, it wasn't the end of it yet. The excerpts also went on about art creating pleasure, or something amongst those lines. You can guess how this all went once you manage to insert innuendo into the lines.
Oh, the pain.
Yes, it's amazing how many clean and informative lines can be mutated just by putting the correct emphasis at the right timings.
...Now excuse me while I go clean my mind.
Labels: daily life
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Posted on 7:31 PM.
