It's an uncomfortable truth - and the reason many of us read your blog! So I would amend the statement to read that "It is the DUTY of the creative to be a prosthetic imagination for the distracted and the dull."
Your "raison d’être", Pete, in case you needed another one...
Interesting that you should bring that up, as Lucy Covington Shrike famously made exactly that point to Maxwell on meeting him in the lobby during the intermission of his now forgotten comic opera "Lord of the Butterflies".
It's an uncomfortable truth - and the reason many of us read your blog! So I would amend the statement to read that "It is the DUTY of the creative to be a prosthetic imagination for the distracted and the dull."
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Interesting that you should bring that up, as Lucy Covington Shrike famously made exactly that point to Maxwell on meeting him in the lobby during the intermission of his now forgotten comic opera "Lord of the Butterflies".
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