Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anestheti...c: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It'...s the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant.... We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »