I think the better distinction is between whom one intends to please -- oneself -- some specific customer -- or a larger, general audience.
Have there ever been playwrights or film directors who only tried to please themselves ? Maybe there have been -- but, unless they've been our personal friends, how would we ever know about them? On the other hand, easel painting and poetry are perfectly suited for self pleasing -- or pleasing a very small market -- perhaps as small as one or two patrons. As Cheerskep might tell us, novelists would be wise to try to please a larger audience if they want their book to be published -- but still, there are examples of self-pleasing works that ended up published and quite famous many years after the writer had died. (I'm reading one right now -- actually, I'm re-reading it -- because the story was just too difficult to follow the first time through.) And.. I'm not sure that clarity vs. ambiguity is relevant to any of this -- if we accept that clarity is just a momentary failure to recognize ambiguity --whether that's regarding Goya's 3rd of May or a Rockwell illustration for a magazine cover. ____________________________________________________________ Learn about VA loan programs and benefits. Click now. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/Ioyw6ijmOilRp7qfymO0OG6QyMi2LP Or9tNavvE2CngDCoUOh3DmdO/
