Remember Homer?

by Ross Wreckless

Posted to WritersAndGenres on 2004-04-26 18:40:00

Parent message is 627834
And I don’t mean Homer Simpson (although he’s a great in his own right). The supposed “author” of the Homeric legends were familiar with straddled the oral and dawning literary age, did he not? Not trying to sound high faluting here, I’m seriously asking “did he not?” Because I’m not quite sure and I’m too lazy to look it up.

So as we move deliberately and undeniably away from print, who is to say that Charlie Kaufman or Paddy Chayevsky (sp?) aren’t examples of today’s ultra-greats.

This makes us seem sad for the medium that is fading (at least it makes me seem sad). But isn’t this the way things go? Who are the composers of today who will be remembered 100, 200, 500 years from now the way that Mozart, Beethoven and Bach are remembered today?

Various cultures, particularly ours, have a complexity and fragmentation that is accelerating like a fishing sinker tossed of the highest tier of the leaning tower of Pisa or Piza or Pizza. Yeah, Pizza!

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