- All these questions are purely academic, Russell oracled out of his shadow. I
mean, whether Hamlet is Shakespeare or James I or Essex. Clergymen's discussions
of the historicity of Jesus. Art has to reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual
essences. The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life
does it spring. The painting of Gustave Moreau is the painting of ideas. The
deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with
the eternal wisdom, Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of
schoolboys for schoolboys.
James Joyce, Ulysses
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