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HEROIC_ART

                                              July 07, 2006

  Let me tell you a story,
  it's a story often told,
  but many people seem to
  like hearing it over and
  over again.

  It is a romanticized,
  idealized tale of a
  great hero...

  The hero is a genius, who
  creates a new work of art
  with no reference to
  anything that has gone
  before --

  It is a totally new work, it
  is even a new *kind* of work,
  a pure act of creation.
     
  It is executed perfectly,    
  because our hero, worked 
  very hard toward that       
  perfection and refused to     
  show it to the world at      
  any earlier stage.             
                             
  All temptations to
  compromise were resisted.

  Many sacrifices were made.

  The work was completed   
  through the compulsion of
  genius, without external
  encouragement or hope of
  worldly reward.       
                        
  And there it stands, an 
  inspiration to all who choose 
  to make an art with integrity 
  without worry of popularity. 
  
                        
  It ignores all the trite motifs, 
  like the hero that comes through alone.              
  

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