Don Share wrote in response to Michael Robbins:
And then B. [Walter Benjamin] says, commenting on the "ancient lament that the masses seek distraction whereas art demands concentration from the spectator...."
Here's a spectator absorbed by art...
Bob Kaul was in the apparel business for 40 years and on retiring he discovered poetry. On Sunday evening he was reading Richard Ellman’s Yeats: The Man and The Mask in section 224, aisle 3, seat 102 at Wrigley Field. I just happened to sit behind him. (BTW, the Cubbies beat the Cardinals 6-2.)
Emily Warn was born in San Francisco and grew up in California and Detroit. She earned degrees from ...
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