Hungry for Birds

Let's attempt to kill two birds with one stone, although it's most likely that I'll accidentally hit myself and lose both birds. I don't even know why I want the birds dead in the first place, but whatever.

So first, Reality Hunger. I didn't really find any allusions that caught my eye a lot, so you could say I cheated a bit in that I looked at the appendix, which happened to be a pool of very interesting stuff. Anyway, quote 82 is as follows, "Art is not truth; art is a lie that enables us to recognize truth."

It's a Picasso quote. Yay. Other than the use of the semicolon, there's not that much that's different from other stuff that the author of the book has said so far. He's made the point that art is a lie, that "art is theft." That last quote is also Picasso's quote, so we can see some recurring themes here. I didn't know that was how Picasso thought about art.

Even I wouldn't call this "real".

Here comes the second bird. Now, concerning the feedback I received for the comic I drew, which you probably haven't seen if you're a random high-schooler browsing the web for some potentially enlightening material (Ha.). I'd like to first state how interesting it was to hear my teacher talk to himself. It was also quite interesting to imagine said teacher mumbling stuff to himself awkwardly in a dark, small room. Something, something. Maybe I should draw comics more often, but it does take a lot of time.

I was going to include a third bird before I realized that I don't have to kill it by tomorrow. So yeah, there's that. Also, including a third bird would have made this blog post altogether chaotic and possibly disorienting. Not that it would have been a bad blog post at all, since it would have reflected the same chaotic and disorienting form of writing (or copying?) that Reality Hunger has.

Sorry about that.

What am I even talking about.