¶ Joyce: James Joyce
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Joyce: James Joyce:
“The brush and chisel artists who, despite the literary man’s frustrations, tried to follow the scientists into ‘nonconcep-tuality’ with their ‘nonrepresentational’ quasi-abstractions are now proven to have been intuitively sound in their conviction that they could really follow or even lead science in the game of intuitive probing. In a sense science behaved more ignorantly than the artists, but the artists’ pursuit of science with its various phases of abstraction forsook the conceptually reasonable requirements of the literary man who has been held by society to be the public’s interpreter of the significance of the total inventory of evolving realities. James Joyce to a mild extent and Gertrude Stein to a considerable extent attempted to go along with the brush and chisel abstractionists in following the scientists into nonconceptual validity of reasoning, but by and large the world public was left incommunicado by both science and modern art. Both the scientists and the artists themselves became defensively bewildered by the overall and unexpected emergences of major crises of man with none of which emergencies /sic/ either blind-flying science or blind-man’s-bluffing art could cope, either positively or negatively.”
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- MEPE5 p. 01/1965 (For follow-on see Conceptuality.)
