August 2009
7 posts
“Why don’t you open up your own fucking restaurant? How about that?”
—Momofuku Overlord David Chang to Alan Richman, at the end of Richman’s GQ review of the Fried Chicken dinner Chang’s got going on these days. (via bbook)
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The Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
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“Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.”
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Marcel Proust, whom I’ve quoted before, cited by Alain de Botton, whom I’ve also mentioned a few times. This is a great distillation of the redemptive power of art: imaginatively turning anguish into thought can be a means not merely to some sort of wisdom but also to overcoming suffering. This is true of any real value system.
Perhaps when Murdoch says art can be a “false shortcut” she means that art cannot replace suffering; it can help redeem grief, but those who seek art instead of experience, for fear of grief or timidity, gain nothing but a pose.
(via mills)
