According to Wimsatt and Beardsley, a poem does not belong to its author but rather "is detached from the author at birth and goes about the world beyond his power to intend about it or control it. The poem belongs to the public."
You know nothing about me personally, so the work is already done. — Noble Dust
Haydn is long gone, but his works remain. — Bitter Crank
Garrison Keillor, the avuncular Prairie Home Companion, produced hundreds and hundreds hours of perfect radio. — Bitter Crank
This is, actually, true for all of us, whether we are artists or common laborers. If I perform 8 hours of honest labor for you, you got what you paid for. If the other 16 hours of my day I drink, fuck whores, smoke pot, shoot up heroin, and piss in public, but am ready to work again at 9:00 a.m., what's it to you, Jack? — Bitter Crank
"He always sold more than his quota of vacuum cleaners, but you know, he cheated on his wife." So, why should Electrolux care? Maybe he needed to sell a lot of vacuum cleaners to keep both his wife and his mistress happy. Fuck Electrolux. They should be happy he was strongly motivated. — Bitter Crank
the question is will you go see the next movie by someone who had sex with a 14 year old? — Cavacava
Will you endorse his behavior by viewing his film? — Cavacava
Viewing the film isn't endorsement of behavior; it's a crapshoot to see if the film itself was good or not. — Noble Dust
but the question is will you go see the next movie by someone who had sex with a 14 year old? — Cavacava
Is the support of those who haveassaulted,taken advantage of others a feasible moral choice? — Cavacava
I don't understand why people can't separate art from artist. It's fundamentally hypocritical, and indicative of our hero-worship celebrity culture; the heroine falls; we spit on her. — Noble Dust
I'm just not in favor of black listing every person who has done something wrong. BECAUSE, Cavacava, there literally won't be anybody left to do the black listing before long.
Wagner died in 1883. It's more like Nazis were Wagnerian sympathizers. — Bitter Crank
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