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it reads :"Was it really worth it? I don't think so"]]>Jun 19th 2009 5:19PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/
"You just wasted 1,000 years on this stupid book"]]>Jun 19th 2009 6:02PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/Jun 19th 2009 8:57PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/Jun 19th 2009 11:43PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/ "You have been punked! I can't believe it worked."]]>Jun 19th 2009 8:44PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/Jun 19th 2009 9:16PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/
That's the point the author was trying to make. Take... some... time... to... really... read... something... Ponder it a bit, relax in the moment, stop wishing time away hurring from one thing to another. ]]>Jun 19th 2009 9:26PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/Jun 22nd 2009 3:50PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/
If you think this so-called conceptual art is ridiculous, check out anything by Hans Bellmer. Hans hated women. He hated his father. He expressed his hatred with his "art." After WWII, he spent most of his time making erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings and prints of pubescent girls. This was his sexual excitement. Eichmann used his orders as an excuse to help murder his fellow jews; Bellmer used the fascist culture to explain his "unconventional" art. If Mengele could have defended his actions as an art form, who knows where he'd be in today's pantheon? Hans was a pornographer ahead of his time and, naturally, he's very admired by our cognoscenti.

The last time I looked, there was an ink tinted close-up photo of a woman's vagina for sale through a gallery in Greenwich, CT: only $1,800,000.00 USD. And the real shame is that there is probably an idiot out there ready to buy it. Absolutely pathetic!]]>Jun 19th 2009 9:33PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/Jun 19th 2009 9:46PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/Last year I went to the Guggenheim. Paid the $12 to get in. Well, they were showing a few Picasso pieces you never heard of and the rest was all James Dine. Shoes on the floor, a hatchet in the wall, one Christmas ornament.....It was CRAP! I went downstairs and got my money back. ]]>Jun 19th 2009 11:07PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/Jun 19th 2009 9:37PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/Jun 19th 2009 10:18PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/Jun 19th 2009 10:24PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/
The author Leila Brillson writes, "The story being a mere nine words long (come on, is that really a story?)" and to that I would have to remind everyone of flash fiction. A story can be told in one sentence. Look at Amy Hempel; she is well known for her short fiction, some only one sentence long. However, in asking this question to the readers Brillson is doing something that the artist Johnathon Keats is doing: we as readers are invited to questions and comment. We are asked to participate, rather than remain passive readers. I may disagree with Brillson's notion that a story can't be nine words, but I applaud her for her statement because it makes me a better reader and it makes me form my own opinions; in the end, her article is smart and inviting. Keats is doing the same thing; whether you like his piece or not, you will talk about it and form your own opinions on it, which is the purpose of art. Art makes a person think and discuss. It's not a waste of time because we are learning something new. I have the issue of opium and the reason I bought it was not the cover but the stories inside; the idea of time. When I actually looked at the cover I was surprised and intrigued. Sad that it would take so long. I wondered if I could decipher what it said. I also wondered if I could write a story in nine words.

Everyone's comments are valid and I think that Keats' work has been fruitful even here because nine (and now ten) comments have been posted already. ]]>Jun 19th 2009 10:36PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/Jun 19th 2009 11:35PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/Jun 19th 2009 10:40PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/Jun 19th 2009 10:43PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/Jun 20th 2009 12:00AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/19/conceptual-story-takes-1-000-years-to-read/Jun 20th 2009 4:33AM