To Be Human
Words by Richard Powers
Acrylic on panel
Font: Times New Roman (Stanley Morison, 1932)
48" x 36"
2020
$1000
Font: Times New Roman (Stanley Morison, 1932)
48" x 36"
2020
$1000
ORIGINAL CONTEXT
The Overstory: A Novel
2018, W. W. Norton & Company page 383 "Everyone imagines that fear and anger, violence and desire, rage laced with the surprise capacity to forgive--character--is all that matters in the end. It's a child's creed, of course, just one small step up from the belief that the Creator of the Universe would care to dole out sentences like a judge in federal court. To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs. No: life is mobilized on a vastly larger scale, and the world is failing precisely because no novel can make the contest for the world seem as compelling as the struggles between a few lost people."
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