The Stories of Writer Margaret Atwood
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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Negotiating With the Dead
Maximart: Artists are always vacillating back and forth between these two things. The trouble with that is if you get a government in that's too interested in the arts or indeed in the scientists, you get somebody like Stella telling people what kind of art they should have. So it goes all the way back to how do you buy the cheese sandwiches that you need to sustain your material being while you produce your no doubt excellent art? And they're in a load of choices. Patrons, you know, patrons, here's some money, Maximart,. You can inherit money, get born into money, you can come with the partner who's got money. Or you can go
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