GREAT EXPECTATIONS

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/WHAT DID THE UNKNOWN ARCHITECT EXPECT WHEN (S)HE CAUSED THE UNIVERSE?/ /BEAUTY, WISDOM, POWER, PLEASURE, RESPECT, LOVE, TRUTH, BELIEF, EXPANSION, FORM, GRAVITY, MEANING, WORSHIP, SOUND, LIGHT, COLOR, TASTE, ODOR, EXPERIMENT, EVOLU-TION, LIFE?/ /ALL ANSWERS ARE CORRECT/

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/"MAN WOULD FAIN BE GREAT AND SEES THAT HE IS LITTLE; WOULD FAIN BE HAPPY AND SEES THAT HE IS MISERABLE; WOULD FAIN BE RESPECT AND SEES THAT HE IS FULL OF IMPERFECTIONS WOULD FAIN BE THE OBJECT OF THE LOVE AND ESTEEM OF MEN, AND SEES THAT HIS FAULTS MERIT ONLY THEIR AVERSION AND CONTEMPT"/ /BLAISE PASCAL, PEN-SEES/

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/ONLY COMPLEX LIVING BEINGS HAVE MOTIVES, HAVE CONSCIOUSNESS, HAVE GREAT EXPECTATIONS/ /BRICKS, ROCKS, OR STONES DON'T EXPECT/ /THEY UNDERGO/

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/ART IS AN ATTITUDE/ /WHAT DOES THE CRITIC EXPECT FROM THE ARTIST?/ /WHAT DOES (S)HE EXPECT FORM THE GALLERY?/ /WHAT DOES THE ARTIST EXPECT FROM THE PUBLIC?/ /WHAT DOES THE GALLERY EXPECT FROM THE ARTIST?/ /WHAT DOES THE PUBLIC EXPECT FROM THE WORKS OF ART?/ /WHAT DOES THE SPONSOR EXPECT FROM THE ARTIST?/ /IN OTHER WORDS: A LABYRINTH OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS (WITH THE ARTIST IN THE CENTRE OF IT)/ /THE ARTIST IS ALWAYS THE FRUSTRATED AND THE FRUSTRATOR/ /(S)HE CAN NEVER COME UP TO ALL THE ANTICIPATIONS/ /ONE EXPECTS THE UNEXPECTED FROM THE ARTIST: NOVELTY, SURPRISE, ORIGINALITY, UNEQUALLED, ETC./ /SO THE UNEXPECTED BECOMES EX-PECTED/

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/THE JUNGLE OF EXPECTATIONS CAN ONLY PRODUCE A BUNDLE OF DISILLUSIONMENTS/ /NOT ALL THE EXPECTATIONS OR INEXPECTATIONS CAN BE REALIZED/

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/IN THE STREAM OF LIFE THERE ARE SO MANY SPERMATOZOONS AND ONLY ONE OR TWO SUCCEED IN THEIR MISSION/ /ART IS LIBIDO, DISGUIZED AS FAME, RICHES, POWER, EGO-CENTRISM, SELF-ACTUALIZATION, ETC./ /EVERY SPERMATOZOON EXPECTS PARADISE/ /BUT WHAT DOES (S)HE GET?/ /STRESS, STRESS TO SURVIVE THE DISAPPOINTMENT, ADRENALIN TO RESIST THE FLAMES OF THE GREAT INEXPECTATION/


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