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Jerry Friedman wrote to JM: I was struck by your thoughts on the penetrable or impenetrable
painting in "La Veneziana", and I think you could add Eystein's painting in PF to your list of parallels--the painting that's "penetrable" to "reality", but what for?
JM: A puzzling question: "what for?". One of the richness of art, for me, lies in our freedom to interpret a sentence, a story, a metaphor without reaching any "useful" nor any absolutely "right-or-wrong" conclusions.
I don't know if VN intended to suggest that "one can enter a painting and come out of it holding a lemon" or that one should not literally "enter" a story. And yet, when I read VN's works, I don't need to dream in order to feel the smell of a rose or a putrid swamp or to share in the "beneficence" of a proffered hot cup of coffee.
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painting in "La Veneziana", and I think you could add Eystein's painting in PF to your list of parallels--the painting that's "penetrable" to "reality", but what for?
JM: A puzzling question: "what for?". One of the richness of art, for me, lies in our freedom to interpret a sentence, a story, a metaphor without reaching any "useful" nor any absolutely "right-or-wrong" conclusions.
I don't know if VN intended to suggest that "one can enter a painting and come out of it holding a lemon" or that one should not literally "enter" a story. And yet, when I read VN's works, I don't need to dream in order to feel the smell of a rose or a putrid swamp or to share in the "beneficence" of a proffered hot cup of coffee.
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