Art Fluff

So here is my definition of art and beauty. Art is that which is created to the purpose of leading its audience to a deeper and more visceral experience of their own existence. Beauty-in-art is the extent to which the object succeeds in its purpose. Beauty-in-nature is that which is uncreated, but which also brings the experiencer to a deeper engagement with themselves and the world.

Any further refinement is reductionist and exclusionary. There will never be consensus that such-and-such an object is beautiful and any attempt to create a set of conditions for beauty is an egoistic assertion that what I like is “real” art, and what you like is not.

Liquid Prose

Reading back over the day’s writing, I think I’ve finally achieved some approximation of a deliberate and unique writing style. Actually, it’s not particularly unique, and it basically answers the question, what if William Faulkner wrote science fiction and was a teensy bit more economical in his dialogue?

What I am going for, ultimately, are sentences which flow like water, which contain as much information as possible, and create the impression of an entire, contextualised idea being transmitted into your mind in one continuous flow. In other words, it is to be the antithesis to the stop-start stutter of modern prose that makes reading feel like driving in downtown traffic.

And because it behooves every pretentious layout: post author to give their bastardised pastiche-style a unique name, here is mine: Liquid Prose.

I encourage you to try it out. I will post examples at a later date.

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