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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Welles somehow manages to combine this with [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]. And it is ''glorious''. |
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Welles somehow manages to combine this with [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]. And it is ''glorious''. |
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* [[Death of the Author]]: Welles reflects on this, suggesting that maybe authenticity isn't important to art: |
* [[Death of the Author]]: Welles reflects on this, suggesting that maybe authenticity isn't important to art: |
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{{quote|Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.}} |
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* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Picasso, according to Welles. [[The Reveal|However...]] |
* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Picasso, according to Welles. [[The Reveal|However...]] |
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* [[Distracted by the Sexy]] |
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]] |