The crowd stood in murmuring dread-a momentary boldness brought them forth - to see what they now feared to watch lest action mingle stage and watcher.
Dick's parable evokes the absurd yearning embedded in our reverence toward art, and the tragicomic paradoxes "masterpieces" embody in the human realm that brings them forth and gives them their only value.
Let's meet some, after a quick overview of the social and market forces that are bringing them forth.
Internationally-acclaimed artist Christophe Leroux displays an innate yet well-tempered sensibility concerning these contrasts - grace and power; fragility and strength -- bringing them forth in dramatic and provocative ways in his show "New Works" - which runs through Saturday, October 11, at the Sonce Alexander Gallery, in Los Angeles.
"Guerra was not credible from day one, and he has now admitted under oath that he lied about the entire case and the principal charges in the case, of a bribe and of a ghostwritten verdict, have now been proven by the very witness that brought them forth to be a lie".
Does this mean we are all going to have to root around for our birth certificates and so forth and bring them to the D.M.V.? Egads!
Jesus himself, in the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke), was constantly preoccupied with the effort of making people better, of having them bring forth "good fruit".
"The enabling technologies existed, but no one had yet been able to align them to bring a hoverboard forth," the description begins.
Pat Robertson has joined the chorus of those condemning Chick-fil-A's pro-LGBT rights protesters, challenging them to "to bring forth a baby from that part of the anatomy which they concentrate on".
