You told another FReeper here that I called you a coward. That isn't true.
You accused me of running away and I have bad manners?
Again untrue. I accused you of being unable to think of a counterexample on the spot. Not of being a coward.
Your very first post to me on this thread, post 19, was pretty uncivil and your manners have degenerated since then.
Now you have changed the subject to art. Figures.
The subject was art to begin with. I refer you to your post 19 again, where you specifically quote me referring to art and literature.
You need a Dale Carnegie book. He wrote it for profit.
If you consider the writings of Dale Carnegie to be either great art or literature, then we need to define those terms a little more precisely.
Your statement was MORONIC.
If that were so, then it would be easily disproved by one concrete example.
You have attempted to shift the argument as to whether artists and writers have been paid - if you'll notice I made reference in post 13 to the fact that Michangelo was paid for his work on commission.
I acknowledged the money aspect from the very beginning of this discussion - which is why I made the distinction between pay and profit from the very beginning.
That's a distinction you are pretending was never made and which you are trying to erase.
Let's put it very simply - if I offered to give you $5 for a year's work would I be paying you? Of course. Would it be profitable for you? No.
I repeat my original contention:
There is not one valuable, enduring piece of art or literature out there which was made or written for material profit.
This statement stands on it's own.
And your attack on me stands on it's own too.