[b]Jeanette Winterson
Atlas said, Must my future be so heavy?
Hera said, That is your present, Atlas. Your future hardens every day, but it is not fixed.
How can I escape my fate?
You must choose your destiny.[/b]
Either that or shrug.
Something as straightforward as a difference could lead to something as complex as a breakdown.
In other words, a normal day at the Oval Office.
Bigger questions, questions with more than one answer, questions without an answer are the hardest to cope with in silence. Once asked they do not evaporate and leave the mind to its serener musings. Once asked they gain dimension and texture, trip you on the stairs, wake you at night-time. A black hole sucks up its surroundings and even light never escapes. Better then to ask no questions? Better then to be a contented pig than an unhappy Socrates?
Obviously, yes. Clearly, no. Though, quite possibly, maybe.
Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the art of the past, except as history or documentary. But our interest in art is our interest in ourselves both now and always. Here and forever. There is a sense of the human spirit as always existing. This makes our death bearable. Life + art is a boisterous communion/communication with the dead. It is a boxing match with time.
Otherwise summed up as “human-all-too-human” art.
It’s the clichés that cause the trouble.
For example, “Don’t forget to vote!”
Human beings often display emotions they do not feel. And they often feel emotions they do not display.
In other words, on purpose.