Jim,Ha when the figments speak up to taste like sonmthieg rotted between my teeth and I bat them back down I do wonder if I play with an AI game on my computer or if there is not some person(s) in some hole someplace distant that I just jounced. The give and take of interface with an online audience, as I have found over time, is one of development of a context through the play of games with words. After a while there is a sense of getting to know' each other, and for a reader with the less volatile and changing media of a novel there is a contextual mass that they learn to identify with their favored author and I think when more time is invested to develop comfort with a context it is more difficult to let it go, to let it change. When that mass of built-up context veers off, say the author types with their left hand rather than the right, the context changes. Sometimes that change in context can be subtle, as with the slow degradation of the brakes on the car up to the day they really don't work no matter how hard you shove down on the peddle, or the change in context can be abrupt. The car suddenly explodes in a ball of fire for no apparent reason.I do not have any examples to express in literature as to radical change of context though David Bowie I think is a good example of an artist who has become recognized as a continual morph in context to a degree that his audience expects radical changes . though within a context as he remains a performer and has not suddenly become famous for snowboarding, least ways not that I know of. Some artists get to a point where they cannot go any further with their contextual aggregation and eventually do themselves in; Vachel Lindsey and Kurt Cobain are two examples. In the case of Vachel he was an early victim of having to do the same performance over and over in order to please his audience. In the case of Kurt Cobain he could not go any further in his quest for authenticity that was likewise arguably conditioned by how he saw his relationship to his audience.Fresh arrived today. Thank you for the referral.Later,GO |
