Friday, February 5, 2010
This is why I sometimes tie myself into knots with words
How can any expression be believable and authentic if it isn't qualified and self-doubting? (Somehow questioning itself, self-undermining...)
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Hmm... I would have to say that most expressions are inherently qualified, but not to a degree that detracts from or undermines the original intent. For example, when I hear a song, I don't assume the singer is directly defined by every aspect of the song, but I know that it is revealing of the songwriter generally (obviously this only applies to people that play their own material).
ReplyDeleteI also don't assume that a song, no matter how authentic, represents its writer all of the time. Nobody is static either emotionally, intellectually or socially, and in that context expression doesn't have to be explicitly self-doubting to be believable.
These are thoughts I should be having when I DON'T have two midterms in the next 10 hours. Oh well. Thanks for the study break, Tim!