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To: epicure who wrote (4771)	9/27/2004 4:29:11 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51759

What a bizarre thing to want to DO as a writer. I have to agree with that statement. He gave a reason of sorts in the Q/A after the reading. He said that there are a variety of tragedies that people have in their lives, and the only way to deal with them is to talk about them, write about them, or at least think about them until they are resolved or you are bored with them or otherwise come to grips with them. Some things just cannot be said in public or even thought about again, and the these things never heal. The threshold for being unspeakable varies with each person. This story was supposed to bring something unspeakable into the public realm, he would say it if we couldn't, and by doing so we and his readers might learn to resolve the tragedies of their life that are too embarasing or incorrect to be spoken about. I don't know that I buy into that, but it certainly was an experience that makes you ponder. In his book "Fight Club" he writes that the first rule of the fight club is that you don't talk about it. Not because it is a secret, but because nobody would understand you if you did. TP

To: epicure who wrote (4771)	10/6/2004 11:39:00 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51759

Re this: "but I think art should entertain or enoble- and making the reader nauseous rarely could have that effect" To each his own, of course, but I remember quite a few films, books, and indeed paintings whom others have found very sick and that I have found quite interesting. J.G. Ballard's "The Atrocity Exhibition" and Cronenberg's "Naked Lunch" immediately come to mind... Personally, I think art can (aside from "entertaining and enobling") also stimulate through shock :-)