[lit-ideas] Ars Longa...
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 16:14:53 EDT
D. Ritchie:
>> Steven Wright, in concert here last Saturday, "Life is short. It's not
>> that wide either."
McEvoy:
>This is too logical positivist: it is short in temporal terms ie. finite, but
>its theoretical width and depth are infinite for aught we know."
I think Mr. Wright was Englishing the well-known Latin adage, "Ars longa,
vita brevis" (Cicero, Epist. vii, ad 8) -- which is all back to M. Geary's
remarks on Michelangelo's _Davide_, I suppose.
Which art is the _longest_?
Cheers,
JL
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