Letters from a Stoic

I too though Jeanette was wonderful, but if anyone wishes to see her an an exemplar of the stoic approach to art and life, they may also have to accept that she herself would not despise the supposed great adverseries of the Stoic philsophy, the Epicurians. And Seneca himself is always quoting Epicurus with approval, if only to show that there is no monopoly on truth. Nonetheless I cannot resist quoting from Seneca's letter XXXIII in support of John's contention that art needs working at:

" So give up this hope of being able to get an idea of the genius of the greatest figures by so cursory an approach. You have to examine and consider it as a whole. There is a sequence about the creative process, and a work of genius is a synthesis of its individual features from which nothing can be removed without disaster."

More trivially, I've been away from a computer with interet access for most of the last week, hence no posts! Back in earnest now.