[lbo-talk] "Ambiguities"

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Feb 4 15:19:42 PST 2006


Thomas Seay wrote:
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> Works of art are always ambiguous otherwise they are
> propaganda. To really try and understand something in
> its complexity, an artist must be ambiguous, otherwise
> he is a moralist and pretending to have the certainty
> of God.

Nonsense. Practically every word of it. Something can be both ambiguous and easy to understand or unambiguous and difficult to understand. You are blowing smoke without thinking what you are saying.

Carrol



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