2023-06-24 04:15:09
Last week I proposed the creation of an exaggerated and eternal anthology company (at least for the eternity during which we have to exist, shorter than the one destined for the crushing, exploding, compacting or disintegrating of the Universe). This company proposes a conspiracy or joint or clot of anonymous scribes and anthologists dedicated to bringing together the stories, lives and works of second or third order talents.
In this catalog those high peaks that any donkey can name in a question and answer program will be excluded: there will be no place for Petronius, Cervantes, Phidias, Pythagoras, Sophocles, Shikibu, Averroes, Bacon, Shakespeare, Li Po, Homer, Bingen, Propertius, Kafka, Euripides, Beethoven, Bach, Michael Jackson (whom one of his brothers said was humanity’s greatest musical genius), Maradona, Fangio, Euripides, and the reader will fill in the missing names at will. Only such discreet talents will be admitted, so within everyone’s reach, and in such a democratic and comprehensive area that any neighbor’s son capable of putting a recently uncovered cork in a trash can will ask to be admitted (and perhaps will succeed). located three meters from the launch site. Of course, it will be included only if the anthologist proves that the cork throwing belongs to an artistic discipline. Otherwise, the anthology will dispense with its existence, which may redound to the benefit of the selection criteria.
Suppose then that the anthology is limited to reviewing the lives and works of minor talents belonging to the more traditional fine arts (music, painting, sculpture, theatre, dance, literature), and that the organizational criteria for arranging the biographical material have been resolved. found, which is completely impossible, because small or mediocre talents are always discovered as soon as one sets one’s eye on the countries, the names, the history, the chronology…, but assuming that an optimal means of organization is found, and more than optimal perfect, irrefutable, all that remains is to choose the definitive classification criteria. Are talents set to review at increasing or decreasing levels? For sex? For discipline? By date of birth or death? By capricious choice (dice, ta-te-ti, algorithms)?
It is not idle to mention these problems, in the event that some reader of these columns feels touched by the proposal and wants to participate in the process of investigation, selection and final decision on the material surveyed, and eventually search for an editorial or page. of the internet where it is uploaded. The risk that, at some point, one or many of the bona fide search engines and selectors discover that there are those who try to define capricious inclusion and exclusion systems, distorting the project, is also not ruled out. Then do not say that I did not warn.
Next week, by way of illustration, I will provide my own model biography.
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