"Everything changes but the avant-garde," French poet Paul Valery said almost a hundred years ago. Times certainly haven't changed. If you set out to shake up the mainstream, it's going to smell like it (at least most of the time), thus defeating your intention. Shaking things up has to come from another place, has to be grounded in some…
"Everything changes but the avant-garde," French poet Paul Valery said almost a hundred years ago. Times certainly haven't changed. If you set out to shake up the mainstream, it's going to smell like it (at least most of the time), thus defeating your intention. Shaking things up has to come from another place, has to be grounded in something. Wallace Stevens said too much imagination doesn't work, and too much reality doesn't either. The two have to work together in order to shake things up.
"Everything changes but the avant-garde," French poet Paul Valery said almost a hundred years ago. Times certainly haven't changed. If you set out to shake up the mainstream, it's going to smell like it (at least most of the time), thus defeating your intention. Shaking things up has to come from another place, has to be grounded in something. Wallace Stevens said too much imagination doesn't work, and too much reality doesn't either. The two have to work together in order to shake things up.
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