[Curtis Gale Weeks]

<u>Incidental Notes</u>
which might be irrelevant, but what the hell...

Emerson said in his essay on Goethe:

<dir>"It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by a few elements, but by the highest complexity."</dir>

1. Some people seem to think that "highest simplicity" is achieved "by a few elements;"
   
2. others, that a vast presentation of multifarious elements shows an authentic complexity;
   
3. and yet others, that authentic representation is impossible, due to the number of complex variables which would comprise such representation; these last either a) do not bother representing, or b) go for a "near approximation" which they recognize to be utterly false but in some respects right-on.
   
4. Meanwhile, some don't know the difference between #'s 1 & 2.

(And I suppose the above, taken generally, will apply to both, creator and critic.)

[I reserve the right to revise these notes.]