It’s time to listen
“Tenser is really an avatar, a template or model of the artist who is actually giving everything he could give, opening himself up and giving what is the deepest, most intimate part of himself hidden inside. He’s offering it up to his audience and therefore being incredibly vulnerable to ridicule, to rejection, to misunderstanding, to anger. And to me, that is the model of a true passionate artist.”
It takes over the form, the shape of the ***** itself. It really, in a sense, dominates it, reshapes it. It’s not just parasitic, although I suppose, in a sense, it is that too. It seems to take meaning away from the *****. Takes the process of meaning for itself.
It breaks the spell, so to speak.