6/7/2023 0 Comments Beautiful darkness fabienIf I the reader, viewer, appreciator cannot grasp its meaning, then the creator failed the task of communication. The temptation of the everyday consumer-critic, filling Amazon and Goodreads with 5- and 1-star ratings and more than their share of exclamatories, is to complain that the work was not made accessible enough. If I don’t understand the thing, I am entirely incapable of judging its value, its ability to succeed at what it attempts to accomplish. make actually seeing the work with any clarity impossible. Just a minor and 100% glasses-correctable astigmatism. I might as well talk about how I felt about the latest Takeshi Miyazawa piece despite the fact that my cataracts 1 1 Note: I don’t actually have cataracts. What can you say about a work you can’t be sure you understood, a communication garbled in translation? Would it be fair to judge such a thing at all? If I see a movie but am mystified as to what happened in it or what it meant, it’s hardly fair for me to say either that it was great or horrible.
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