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I'm not sure, but I know that truly great comedy derives from mental pain and anguish.
Truly great writing, for me encompasses all the emotions, while keeping at certain distance from them. This detachment, for me, denotes a certain level of mastery and spiritual progress.
Focussing on mental pain and anguish I think smacks of adolescent selfishness and ignorance.
Its obvious. Most great writers/poets have had a mental problem - Steven King, Silvia Plath, Ernist Hemmingway, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Dillan Thomas ect
Hey what about Steinbeck, now there's an optimistic guy... :)
How can you have a Great Writers list that starts with Stephen King? Ha ha. I thinking more of people like Shakespeare, louisfifer. Heard of him? Stephen King! Brilliant.
That, or alcohol:
Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, and the list goes on...
by mojo on Thu Jan 20, 05 10:09am
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Optimism may be powerful, but its opposite seems to be a more common power.
Well, in the months since Mister Bush was re-elected, I've been writing almost non-stop, and I was seriously blocked until then.
Good list mojo, all very gifted. Yes cretin, I have heard of Shakespeare; I am not a big fan, but I do respect his work.
I sort of feel the same way about him, but i'm not sure any great art comes from mental pain or anguish.
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Absolutely. Grief digs the wells from which spring great writing.
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