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[mallorys_camera]

This is basically a writing diary where I write all kinds of stuff that will be immensely boring to anyone who stumbles across it.

So you should go back to Facebook.

Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly. ---- Harry Lime

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What is art good for? Absolutely nothing if we're talking human life.

[bb-lurks.livejournal.com]

So the Italians went about slaughtering each other while the Swiss lived in peace (and sent out mercenaries to among other places, Italy)

Is the life of even one person worth the greatest work of art? Is the rape, pillage and destruction of the Italian wars sufficient recompense for La Gioconda?

Not for me. See "The Train" (Burt Lancaster) or Bullets over Broadway (The film, not the musical) for some think pieces on that.

Since I have to look at that lie by a sociopath everytime I sign on to your LJ, I thought I might add a belated "NO!"

Re: What is art good for? Absolutely nothing if we're talking human life.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, I mean Harry Lime... :-)