tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3103468178785351777.post87355226601284161..comments2021-05-28T05:05:20.678-07:00Comments on To Gather & To Heap Up: Roar Lion Roar -- Irvin FaustThe Right to Writehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18272997801840646037noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3103468178785351777.post-30487870028597007132010-12-08T05:49:17.369-08:002010-12-08T05:49:17.369-08:00It's tough, but a writer has to fail doing wha...It's tough, but a writer has to fail doing what has to be done. In the 50's high art and popular culture were converging. Today, everything is brought down to the mundane, the marketable, but in the wake of Joyce and Duchamp, and in the context of America's imperial decades, the pop as material for high art, alchemical metamorphoses, was exciting and viable. Writing about popular culture also preserves it. We live in micro worlds and writing can capture the micro world lost in mass amnesis. I guess the problem would be that of the fossil.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02779349971367825564noreply@blogger.com