DANIEL NESTER

19 Aesthetic Questions for the High Born

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 






 

 

 

 

19 Aesthetic Questions for the High Born

1. Which bible translation do you prefer?
2. Is realism always all the rage with you guys, or what?
3. When does real tragedy begin? End?
4. What is an “elevated style”?
5. When an even temperament is called for, do representations of nature
always follow?
6. Conversely, when you get mad, is it, like, steaming mad?
7. Why don’t you ever pay the check at dinner?
8. Why do you act so poor in front of us?
9. Can I go on another ride?
10. Did you just change the subject?
11. Why do you fragment things so much?
12. In the framework of lament, must there always be a nature scene?
13. Did you know that movies can’t show more than two butt thrusts?
14. That, after the second, there has to be a cutaway to anything—a sunrise,
a pretty girl, a missile taking off, a flower opening?
15. What did you just say?
16. Why dress bedraggled?
17. Why don’t you give me a try?
18. Will you pull my finger?
19. Do you really cry?

 

 

 

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