perl -MCPAN -e shell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Hoskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 11:13 AM Subject: Equivalent Linux tool to ppm
> Is their a tool similar to ppm for Linux (Unix)? > > "You use a Windows machine and the golden rule is: Save, and save often. > It's scary how people have grown used to the idea that computers are > unreliable when it is not the computer at all - it's the operating system > that just doesn't cut it." - Linus Torvalds > > Sean Hoskin, > Technical Lead > E-Application Development > Williams-Sonoma, Inc. > 151 Union Street - IH1 > San Francisco, CA 94111 > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (415)402-4775 > > /* The instinct which creates the arts is not the same as that which > produces art. The creative instinct is, in its final analysis and in its > simplest terms, an enormous extra vitality, a super-energy, born > inexplicably in an individual, a vitality great beyond all the needs of his > own living - an energy which no single life can consume. This energy > consumes itself then in creating more life, in the form of music, painting, > writing, or whatever is its most natural medium of expression. Nor can the > individual keep himself from this process, because only by its full function > is he relieved of the burden of this extra and peculiar energy - an energy > at once physical and mental, so that all his senses are more alert and more > profound than another man's, and all his brain more sensitive and quickened > to that which his senses reveal to him in such abundance that actuality > overflows into imagination. It is a process proceeding from within. It is > the heightened activity of every cell of his being, which sweeps not only > himself, but all human life about him, or in him, in his dreams, into the > circle of its activity. > > >From the product of this activity, art is deducted - but not by him. The > process which creates is not the process which deduces the shapes of art. > The defining of art, therefore, is a secondary and not a primary process. > And when one born for the primary process of creation, as the novelist is, > concerns himself with the secondary process, his activity becomes > meaningless. When he begins to make shapes and styles and techniques and new > schools, then he is like a ship stranded upon a reef whose propeller, whirl > wildly as it will, cannot drive the ship onward. Not until the ship is in > its element again can it regain its course. > > And for the novelist the only element is human life as he finds it in > himself or outside himself. The sole test of his work is whether or not his > energy is producing more of that life. Are his creatures alive? That is the > only question. And who can tell him? Who but those living human beings, the > people? Those people are not absorbed in what art is or how it is made-are > not, indeed, absorbed in anything very lofty, however good it is. No, they > are absorbed only in themselves, in their own hungers and despairs and joys > and above all, perhaps, in their own dreams. These are the ones who can > really judge the work of the novelist, for they judge by that single test of > reality. And the standard of the test is not to be made by the device of > art, but by the simple comparison of the reality of what they read, to their > own reality. > > I have been taught, therefore, that though the novelist may see art as cool > and perfect shapes, he may only admire them as he admires marble statues > standing aloof in a quiet and remote gallery; for his place is not with > them. His place is in the street. He is happiest there. The street is noisy > and the men and women are not perfect in the technique of their expression > as the statues are. They are ugly and imperfect, incomplete even as human > beings, and where they come from and where they go cannot be known. But they > are people and therefore infinitely to be preferred to those who stand upon > the pedestals of art. */ -Pearl Buck, Nobel Lecture > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
