An artist's job is to shift how people think, using Emerson's idea that a mind stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimensions. The speakers discuss whether theater intermissions give audiences time to actually process and talk about what they've seen.
Right. The challenge is to think differently, you know, to be affected in some way before they. Before they came and that they are changed somehow with a broader perception after they leave. Right. It was. I may mess this up. The Emerson quote of a mind once stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimension.
That's cool. Yeah.
And that's. That is the work of an artist. Yeah. Know is for you to say, look in here and they go, you know, their mind is expanded and, you know, for. If there's. Do you ever listen? Do you ever. I don't know if your plays are long enough actually to have an intermission. Do you ever go out and listen at intermission time what's being talked about?
Sometimes that can be painful. But, yes, I mean, I've certainly sat in enough audiences where as soon as the lights come up, even if it's a 90 minute, where there's no intermission, people start, you know, right away.