JEJ: The 11 Questions
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Channel: John Thornton · 2018 · Education
Though art has died, cry not my little ones, for art is replaced this day with something quite beyond art’s dilapidated pettiness. Heed well the eleven questions, long live the new poetry of courage, audacity and revolt. The 11 Questions 1. What has replaced Art with the rash thrill of the slap and blow of the fist? JEJ 2. Who are the watch dogs on the steps of the houses of Art, raising high the enormous grappling irons of discernment? JEJ 3. Who now sings the love of danger, without energy but with rashness? JEJ 4. Who has induced the most feverish sleeplessness in the gluttonous railway stations? JEJ 5. Who believes that no masterpiece exists without a chortle, a chuckle and chubster’s mirth? JEJ 6. Who exists on the extreme promontory of the centuries while opening the mysterious shutters of the impossible? JEJ 7. Who surfs the polyphonic waters of revolution like enormous steel horses with long tubes for bridle? JEJ 8. Who bridges our discontents with the leap of gymnasts flung across the diabolic cutlery of sunny rivers? JEJ 9. Who spends itself with warmth, glamour and prodigality to increase the enthusiastic fervor of the primordial elements? JEJ 10. Who, in order to tame art, first tamed Death, and sometimes lay on the ground with a noise of creaking jaws while sneaking velvet glances from the bottom of puddles? JEJ 11. What has enriched the world with a splendid new beauty, the beauty of quickly falling into the pit of wisdom? JEJ
