From: Natalie@yabbs
To: arachnoi@yabbs
Subject: re: Burn Lib, Burn
Date: Tue Jun 14 16:36:42 1994

i've heard those stories about shakespeare, and wuite frankly, i don't 
givea flying fuck who the 'real' shakespeare was.(^^^quite) all i know is 
that i like it.  

movig from shakespeare to michelangelo.  ok, granted, the sistine chapel 
may look a bit cartoonish.  butyou can'tdeny the power of 'david' or 'la 
pieta'.  i like his sculptures the best, even tho he couldn't sculpt a 
woman to save his life (look at some of the naked women he's done...they 
look like he'sstuck breasts on men...very strange looking).  

so....if i write a piece of great literature, and then decide to tell 
everyone it's fact, does that in anyway diminish it's artistic value?  and 
while we're at it, what do you call heinrich schliemann's discovery of 
troy?  a hoax?  he proved that there was a troy, and it was sacked (many 
times, even).  things may not have happened exactly how homer says they 
did, but it's kind of cool to think that there really was a helen... and 
lots of writers extrapolate on historical fact to create something 
different.  i know i do it quite a bit...

natalie