Ian Crisp writes:
>John Smyth wrote:
>
>>What makes an artist great is his ability to articulate the Condition
>>of Humanity better than others.
>
>That is a splendid summary of something I've tried to say many times on
>this list and others, but I've never been able to do it in two lines. John,
>I thank you for that. >>
Is it self-evident what "The Condition of Humanity" is? I'm not disputing,
as others will, that there is a single overall truth here; I do believe
there is. I just don't share any of the common views of it -- the
"modernistic", the Existentialist, the post-modern -- and resent people who
dismiss works that express depths of happiness as superficial on grounds
that to them success and happiness are *not* part of "the condition of
humanity".
Allan Gotthelf