Making art is making love. Each maker seeks a different sort of intimacy with a different sort of mate.
Some are specific and exclusive in their appeal. Nabokov intended his works to be difficult, to dissuade the hoi polloi. Joyce, Pound, and many moderns were aesthetic snobs, narrowing their readership to an abject elite.
Other makers are affable and inc…
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