Armour

[poliphilo]

Personality is armour. Artists- volatile and sensitive individuals whose work involves much exposure to public gaze- often develop particularly baroque personalities. This really isn't surprising.

Consider Bob Dylan. I think, from all I've been reading lately, that he's actually quite a nice, shy, ordinary little guy at heart. It's a measure of the fragility of the man that the personality he projects is so monstrous.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed.

We all construct a shell around our vulnerable inner selves. The thing about someone like Dylan is that he's out there in the arena and has to fend off a continual public battery.

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

True, but that is merely a matter of a different scale compared to the rest of us. the principle involved remains the same.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yup, it's a question of scale-

and visibility.

"full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air. "