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Page 79
... artist does , is fail . . . . the paradigmatic artistic experience is that of fail- ure . The actualization fails to meet , equal , the intuition . There is something out there ' which cannot be brought ' here . ' " 43 The unreachable ...
... artist does , is fail . . . . the paradigmatic artistic experience is that of fail- ure . The actualization fails to meet , equal , the intuition . There is something out there ' which cannot be brought ' here . ' " 43 The unreachable ...
Page 146
... artists with the result that the na- tive beauty of the Holy Land has been preserved and even height- ened . The prestige of novelists along with other artists is such that no intermediaries are needed between ourselves and the public ...
... artists with the result that the na- tive beauty of the Holy Land has been preserved and even height- ened . The prestige of novelists along with other artists is such that no intermediaries are needed between ourselves and the public ...
Page 167
... artist's insistence upon his ' interpretation ' " ( p . 81 ) . The best praise Sorrentino finds for the poet he is reviewing is to compare him to Sukenick's model , Wallace Stevens : " There is the same penchant in both for the ...
... artist's insistence upon his ' interpretation ' " ( p . 81 ) . The best praise Sorrentino finds for the poet he is reviewing is to compare him to Sukenick's model , Wallace Stevens : " There is the same penchant in both for the ...
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