02-15-2012, 05:44 PM
Ed,
I know that you are not asserting that it is, but that's not poetry, that's psychology. On top of that, it is nothing new. When you are doing things to study how the mind tries to create some kind of order out of distortion you have left poetry. And really, what he is doing is really pseudo -psychology/neuroscience. Of course if a person knows nothing about research into this area, it would be easy for them to be duped into thinking he was on to something profound, but really this is old hat. I mean Rorschach has been around since 1921 and it relies on this same principle of making sense out of distortion, so Chopin was about 60 years behind the curve. He was pretending to discover something that had already been examined 60 years earlier.
I know that you are not asserting that it is, but that's not poetry, that's psychology. On top of that, it is nothing new. When you are doing things to study how the mind tries to create some kind of order out of distortion you have left poetry. And really, what he is doing is really pseudo -psychology/neuroscience. Of course if a person knows nothing about research into this area, it would be easy for them to be duped into thinking he was on to something profound, but really this is old hat. I mean Rorschach has been around since 1921 and it relies on this same principle of making sense out of distortion, so Chopin was about 60 years behind the curve. He was pretending to discover something that had already been examined 60 years earlier.
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.