Re: CHAT: Steg's wonderful .sig (and a question)

Grandsire, C.A. wrote:

>         My boyfriend knows that I do conlanging, but he seems to be unable to
> understand the interest of it. He is an artist too (his painting is very
> beautiful) but he thinks that art must be shared, that's to say that to
> call something art, someone who is not acquainted in its technique must
> be able to enjoy it. He accepts that I have another definition of art
> (fulfillement of the artist himself) and understand that under this
> definition, conlanging is art, but he doesn't share it.
Then it's this very listserv and everything related to it that makes it
a *shared* artform.  A crucial point!

 He also think
> that I have a real talent in prose and poetry and that I should first
> write them instead of inventing languages. He may have a point, but I
> don't function like that. Sometimes I completely abandon conlanging for
> a while to write my short stories or poems, and sometimes I do the other
> way round, but in any case I have to feel it right to do it. It's a kind
> of "compulsive" behaviour I think. Do others among you have also this
> kind of behaviour?
If you practice music all day long, is that a compulsion?  Christophe,
I don't think this activity is any more compulsive than any artistic
passion.

Sally
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