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Big Shiny Robot: Art as radical rebellion
The joy of creating to grow not your bank account, but your soul
Twenty years ago, just one year before his death, Kurt Vonnegut responded to a letter inviting him to offer his wisdom to a class of high schoolers. At 84, he regretfully declined, but insisted he wouldn’t have much to say anyway. His one bit of advice would be to practice art—any art.
Vonnegut wrote about this idea throughout his life, and thus included it in this letter as one of his parting missives. Practicing any art, no matter how well or badly, not for money or fame, is a way to “experience becoming, ” to discover what’s inside you, and to make your soul grow—itself an interesting thing…
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