#0, Scientific inquiry in modern art
Posted by blackmore on 06-Jun-07 at 10:23 PM
“He suggested I play golf, but finally agreed to give me something that, he said, "would really work"; and going to a cabinet, he produced a vial of violet-blue capsules banded with dark purple at one end, which, he said, had just been placed on the market and were intended not for neurotics whom a draft of water could calm if properly administered, but only for great sleepless artists who had to die for a few hours in order to live for centuries.” -- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita Are the sleepless artists really great, or merely properly administered? keep reading
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