There’s nothing like a great live performance to sandblast our preconceptions about a work of art. Literature, painting—any art that is fixed—suffers the obscurings of time, and the older the art, the worse it gets. By the time you read The Iliad or see the Mona Lisa here in the 21st century, these works are so encrusted with other people’s opinions and attitudes—not to mention the preconceptions of the civilization that bred them—that you can’t hope to ever see the things plainly.
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