Ā Ā Ā Ā So why do I care about art? Indeed, why now? As I grow older (by which I mean āoldā), I refuse, refuse, refuse to retire: to quit writing, to quit believing Iām doing something that matters . . . to quit believing that humanity is collective and, at the deepest levels of our being, we all participate in this collective. This is what I call art, even though I donāt know what I mean by that. Or at least I donāt mean something thatās simple and certain, or even particularly serious ā at least not in an academic sense. Serious can be fun.
