tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10314030.post8268513039014110740..comments2007-06-29T20:32:30.420-05:00amcorreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04952630644786569828currerbell@hotmail.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10314030.post-34700477277758023142007-06-29T20:32:00.000-05:002007-06-29T20:32:00.000-05:00Ballve, thank you for such a thoughtful comment. I entirely agree with your estimation of the best art being "that which is lived and experienced." I share your disappointment by her announcement, but I'd like to think it's mainly to get the burden of expectation off of her back--the unending circus of the hoopla that surrounds publication. I don't think she could help herself from writing more, though. Maybe she'll stop publishing for now, but I can't really believe that she'll stop writing...it's too deep in her bones for that. <BR/><BR/>And your blog looks interesting--great title! I've added you to my humble 'roll.amcorreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04952630644786569828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10314030.post-45449140893226616762007-06-29T19:54:00.000-05:002007-06-29T19:54:00.000-05:00Dear amcorrea, <BR/>It's an interesting gesture, the writer or poet or artist who decides to abandon their supposed field or activity: Rimbaud's gesture of abandoning it all for Africa. Or I can think of Brazil's Lygia Clark, who first abandoned the canvas, then the gallery, and then art altogether for something that might be described as sensual therapeutics, though some would call it art. I'm disappointed to see Dillard simply saying "I'm tired," though, as if there was some sort of resignation she needed to account more. The point for me is that life is more important than any one narrow sphere of activity, and that perhaps the best art is that which is lived and experienced instead of performed, written or painted.Anyways, thanks for the post. I like Dillard.Ballvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15803259840547719405noreply@blogger.com