Saturday, March 19, 2011

84. The Gettysburg Address


















This post is part one of a three-part response to Aaron:

Aaron didn't like the inclusion of "Carthago delenda est" as a work of art. I would like to try to pinpoint where exactly that phrase goes wrong. Was it that it was overtly political? Here is an expressly political statement that certainly seems to qualify as art. And good art, too, judging by its popularity. (Fun fact: Even the modification "Four score and seven beers ago" gets more Google hits than something like "Holst's first suite".)

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