Ranger19 Mar 2006

'Does not love ask for your faith?' - I don't know; the nearest I've got is college romance which I sincerely doubt was love (and if it was, well then love really isn't all it's cracked up to be...) I was sort of hoping that love would be pretty much evident and not need too much faith for certainty.
'Does not art need that at least for the moment a little part of you believes in what you're seeing?' - I'm not sure I get your drift here. I assume you mean that, for example, when you see a tragic play you believe that the play was reality, that the events actually happened. In which case...yes and no. It requires that you forget the realities of this world, forget who you are, forget that you're in a theatre etc. It requires imagination - the mental creation of another world (this could veer off into modal logic which I'm not one hundred percent up to scratch with...) in which the characters are real people, the setting is a real setting, and the history is a real history. But I don't think this is faith - at least, not in a religious sense. If the play's crap, no amount of faith will make it seem real because it just won't fire up the imagination enough to create the necessary world. I still think this is different from religious faith though.
Spot on with the quote though.