Chekhov's Mistress
An Oft Ignored Truism
by Bud Parr
“The problem with Francine Prose’s review of ”D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider“ (Dec. 4) isn’t that she came to Lawrence through a book (”Lady Chatterley’s Lover“) she glommed from her Dad’s sock drawer, or that she seems not to have renewed her acquaintance with Lawrence’s work since her undergraduate days; the problem is her not uncommon assumption that she may be better able to understand a great writer by reading about him than by reading him.”
- Stephen King, 2005
“This is nevertheless the RIGHT WAY to study poetry, or literature, or painting. It is in fact that way the more intelligent members of the general public DO study painting. If you want to find something about painting you go to the National Gallery, or the Salon Carré, or the Brera, or the Prado, and LOOK at the pictures.
For every reader of books on art, 1,000 people go to LOOK at the paintings. Thank heaven!”
- Ezra Pound, 1934
[King link via The Little Professor]
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: January 04, 2006
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