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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 632658" data-attributes="member: 3887">Celebrim...... there's a lot in your post, and it deserves a better response than I can give here at work<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Let me just say for now...1) I put the hypothetical dead bodies and hypothetical cuddly puppies on equal footing: to wit that they are both unchallenging images that provoke a singular response. I find both banal. There's no ambiguity, nothing to sink ones teeth into. Which isn't to say that you couldn't create fresh and challenging work starting with incredibly banal images/source material. I think that was the whole point behind Andy Warhol<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> 2) I like Adam Sander, albeit in small doses. Happy Gilmore is a funny film. Though I do think his best work is in P.T Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love3) You really shouldn't say that the kind of "fiction of affirmation" falls under the rubric "literary modernism". Modernism in lit. is work like Ezra Pounds poetry, or the fiction of Joyce and Wydham{sp} Lewis.I look forward to continuing this after work, dinner, and a nice glass of Maker's Mark...</blockquote>

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