Diary
Chuck Palahniuk
_The main theme:
Maybe people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
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_Logic:
"Your left brain is a scientist. Your right brain is an artist."He says people live their lives out of the left half of their brains. It's only when someone is in extreme pain, or upset or sick, that their subconscious can slip into their conscious. When someone's injured or sick or mourning or depressed, the right brain can take over for a flash, just an instant, and give them access to divine inspiration.A flash of inspiration. A moment of insight.The French psychologist Pierre Janet called this condition "The lowering mental threshold."Dr. Touchet says, "Abaissement du niveau mental."When we're tired or depressed or hungry or hurting.According to the German philosopher Carl Jung, this lets us to connect to a universal body of knowledge. The wisdom of all people over all time.
_The concept of 'forced inspiration' for an artist; torture and deprivation provided by someone else, is so much american. On demand inspiration. If someone could provide you appropriate amount of pain and agony, you can do art.
_Palahniuk's exploration about the relation between artistry and agony, goes on to the novel Haunted.
_A sentence I've gotta remember, though:
"You drink because you want to express yourself and you're afraid."
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