People need good stories just as they need home-cooked meals, clean water, spiritual peace, and love. A good story is part of that process. It affirms divine order in the universe and justice in human affairs and makes people better than they were before they read it. If artists are more gifted than ordinary mortals (we keep hearing that they are), they should find order and harmony in human experience. That's what Bach and Handel did. Artists should nourish the spirit, not poison it.
I couldn't agree more.
He was interviewed recently by World Magazine. Read the whole article.
(Hat tip: Suitable for Mixed Company. Thanks a lot!)
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Thanks for the link!
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