Colin Fleming

Art uses truth and beauty__oth of which can be quite ugly, even as that ugliness is transcended__o foster change, growth, love, perception, friendship. Something that doesn__ do that can be great. But I wouldn__ call it art [_]

I don__ think there__ a less elitist thing on earth to do than to try and reach out and connect with another human being . . . And that__ what the best writing does, that__ what art does. It looks a reader in the eye, and it proceeds honestly with that reader, and nakedly. There is a compact there, a bond, a relationship, a union, a symbiosis . . . It__ not about you. Whether you__e a genius or an idiot savant. It__ about the work. The work is more important than you. So it__ not about back-claps and plaudits and __sn__ that author smart._ It__ about, __his book really connected with me. And even though you, my friend, are very different from me, I__ lending it to you, because I think it will connect with you as well._ Community. Across the eras. Between people who have never met, who will never meet, who are nonetheless bound in something together, in different ways.