Your question remind me of an interesting story.
Once upon a time there was a man who wished to seek for the truth. When he saw the first
person and ask him what the truth is, the man replied that he don't know. He was
disappointed and saw a second person. He asked that person the same question, and the
person replied, 'Before you ask me, I thought I know the answer. But when I am just
about to tell you, the answer is forgotten.' Finally he saw the third person and
asked what the truth is again. The third person told him that the first person acts in
accordance to the truth and the second person is closed to the truth. He also told him
that both of them don't know the truth.
If when a person claims that he don't know what post-modernism is, he is acting
postmodernly. When a person is just about to tell you what postmodernism is, and he has
the answer forgotten, he is probably closed to postmodernism. But I just don't know what
postmodernism is. The person who claims that he knows postmodernism probably is not
postmodern.
I have asked my previous teacher, who is a photographer and a painter, the question of
what modernism and postmodernism is. He replied, 'Modern art is like a feast. Many
people are invited. Modernism is the table, in good tidiness and order, before the
feast. Postmodernism is the table, in disorderly fashion and disharmony, after the
feast.'
Hope that this brings some thought.
Lam
好鬼深...
消化唔到.
食粒消化餅, 消化下先.
Anyway, thank you very much!