(December 2, 2016 at 2:02 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I'd say a work of art is pretentious when if presents itself as original and profound when it is really derivative and mundane.
Okay: "Sometimes a person's greatest weakness is his greatest strength."
Pretentious: "In my years of experience, I have observed something that few people notice and that is that the weakness of a great man is the strength that makes him great."
Well as Ciscero used to say "Haec uaniloquentia"
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
