 The Clarinet BBoard
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2017-08-25 00:53
On this one I have to come down firmly on the side of GBK. Use the stage name, not for deception but for freedom of expression. Artists make their best art when they are allowed to use a persona or fictional narrator precisely as a screen or mask to distract from their mundane, literal selves.
It is not Hawthorne who narrates The Scarlet Letter, but rather some created fictional narrator who might resemble in some particulars the author but is free to be creative by playing a semi-fictional role. The Internet has made us all too eager to believe what we see in photos at the same time as it has made photos themselves doubtful as evidence in court because photos can now so easily be photo-shopped. If we want to be literal, why stop with a photo--why not a whole body scan or x-ray index? Why not require an audio sample of the poster's clarinet playing as well? Or a complete gene scan. (Let's see, this poster is 2% Gaelic, 47% Flemish, 30% Dutch, 8% North Vietnamese or maybe Hmong, 13% unknown.) What is more real? When we strip naked or when we adorn ourselves with clothing of our own choice? Which of these is more creative and interesting?
Post Edited (2017-08-25 00:57)
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Fuzzy |
2017-08-24 21:26 |
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GBK |
2017-08-24 21:34 |
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Fuzzy |
2017-08-24 22:14 |
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kdk |
2017-08-24 22:25 |
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kdk |
2017-08-24 22:31 |
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Dan Shusta |
2017-08-24 23:22 |
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Barry Vincent |
2017-08-25 00:53 |
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Re: Usernames/Real Names, and bboard etiquette? new |
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seabreeze |
2017-08-25 00:53 |
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Caroline Smale |
2017-08-25 00:59 |
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SonicManEXE |
2017-08-25 01:23 |
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Philip Caron |
2017-08-25 01:54 |
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Dan Shusta |
2017-08-25 01:58 |
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seabreeze |
2017-08-25 02:09 |
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two toots |
2017-08-25 14:51 |
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clarnibass |
2017-08-26 08:07 |
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ned |
2017-08-26 12:57 |
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clarnibass |
2017-08-27 11:26 |
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John Morton |
2017-08-29 02:04 |
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dorjepismo |
2017-08-29 08:56 |
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Fuzzy |
2017-08-29 09:24 |
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Cappuccino |
2017-08-30 21:48 |
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John Morton |
2017-08-31 06:26 |
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Fuzzy |
2017-08-31 07:55 |
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RLarm |
2017-08-31 08:51 |
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SarahC |
2017-08-31 08:54 |
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Dan Shusta |
2017-08-31 11:01 |
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ned |
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cigleris |
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Mark Charette |
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Tony F |
2017-09-01 12:50 |
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RLarm |
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Mark Charette |
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Philip Caron |
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fskelley |
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kdk |
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RLarm |
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shmuelyosef |
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The Clarinet Pages
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