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Yes of course it does - it means the speaker is the personification of that which is to be communicated - though his words need to be guided

Does it not matter - in terms of the authenticity of the message - that the words coming out of the elected official's mouth - are scripted and being read off a glass screen?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... n-liberals

—a transformation into a source for neoliberal, pro-corporate propaganda disguised as left wing punditry, just two years after its inception.

To answer the question

Changing a work of art to suit public taste would make it worse under the current system (context)

Very nice, herbal

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onyourparttounderstand
what'swrittenthetextand
messagecomeacrossmore
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themoataround
thecastlewaswhat
keptyoufromsee
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TV program
In my head
Do you like it
Me too
But it's so crap
Yet we must say it isn't
As it has been given to us
As a program for us girls to like
Where it reduces our persons
into the base standard
That is enjoyed by

Listening to Alex Katz (2017) The painting did represent a toy man A face of a toy was construed on a canvas In paint very easily applied without worry The lines came after from an attempt At another picture of a flag That never worked out Quickly into the shower before it dried The paint came off B...

Calming right down He left the party Holding in one hand Was a letter he had written to his father Opening the door he laid it on the table And asked out-loud if there was anyone there The glass quickly moved across the board taking their hands with it Spelling out a word and then some numbers Sudde...

Softly walked the steps up Indeed the path was now clear As rain fell lightly on the ground He marched on Where to he thought Not having a destination in mind he switched off And simply allowed his feet to keep walking Seeing himself move through the crowd in the eyes of others He grew strong and qu...

The public and their taste are dumbed down and stunted by design. The system doesn't want enlightened, philosophically thinking beings. A project was done by two contemporary Russian artists who did a nation-wide survey asking people of Russia what would be in the best picture of all time, in the e...

perved at by some weirdo.

You horrendous cracker - you don't know me - that position is in your feeble and sick mind

Beautiful girl on the train
Your hair tied-back so sweetly
Your hands
Your lips
Your dress
Your eyes
So piercing and brilliant

I climbed up the church
And jumped off
A leap of faith thought I
The ground opened up
And swallowed me whole
I had gone through religion
That man-made false floor
Looking for a new reason I found art
And with this did I create a meaning to life

Did I walk over broken glass to you
A friend in black had once said
You are the tower whence all light