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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
It is said that a Nazi officer once came to Picasso's house with a postcard of the painting Guernica. The Nazi show the postcard to Picasso and asked "Did you do this?" Picasso replied, "No, you did."
Whether apocryphal or not, this story has been rather instructive to me. I see now that my fascistic adherence to order and structure and rules only serves to quash the creativity that sometimes exists, and can only exist, outside of these rules. Grammar can be an important and useful tool, but when it becomes a fetish, worshiped for its own sake, it undermines the very purpose of putting pen to paper (or typed word to cyberspace, or ink to cave wall) in the first place - the expression of ideas.
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But also remember that Rembrandt, Caravaggio and Peter Paul Reubens paid abundant attention to detail. So, if it ain't Baroque, don't fix it.
BOTD!
