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Good point

The examples I picked weren't fiction. Which weakens the argument.

But, not sure we can say they aren't 'Art'.

How about 'Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe.

That is fiction, and painful. And is moving in a way that makes you want to maybe do something to improve the world.

That was more what I was trying to get at.

Art can't all just be angels playing harps.



I didn't say anything about what art is; just that I don't want anything to do with depressing material when the real world contains plenty of depressing stuff.


"I don't want anything to do with"

Sorry, thought we were discussing this article.

But we're just discussing your feelings, which of course, you can feel anyway you like.




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