Comments on: BNI Writes: https://mikesouth.com/reader-mail/bni-writes-2170/ The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:33:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: TimCase https://mikesouth.com/reader-mail/bni-writes-2170/#comment-695 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:33:12 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/reader-mail/bni-writes-2170/#comment-695 Now wait just a gol-darn minute…
Is anyone on here seriously suggesting that no lasting or important art has been produced since World War I? Surely that’s not the case.

Consider the possibility that the next Ernest Hemingway (or William Faulkner, or James Joyce, or Mark Twain) is somewhere writing novels right now, but no publisher will put out his books because he’s not commercial enough.

There may even be a Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart out there in the great American Heartland, composing symphonies on his Mac in his spare time, but because he’s not any good at requesting grants and his job at Wal-Mart doesn’t afford him much free time, no one will ever hear his music. And we’ll all be the poorer for it.

]]> By: justbrent https://mikesouth.com/reader-mail/bni-writes-2170/#comment-691 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:09:58 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/reader-mail/bni-writes-2170/#comment-691 Wow! Going to stick my head in the oven now.

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