Tuesday, December 29, 2009

News at Eleven: Again, the metaphoric nature of language

gets the artist into trouble. How do you move from figures of speech back to the concrete practices of the Jewish world without being conned by the images you have created? [Stanley] Moss suggests that we imitate the ancient Jewish stonemasons who would willfully mar their work in some way. In Moss's case, this means that the writer of "Bad Joke" has to turn his anger into vaudeville by showing how limited his poetic means truly are.

from Tablet: The Joke's on God

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