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How do you turn catastrophe into art? Nowadays the process is automatic. A nuclear plant explosion? We'll have a play on the London stage within a year. A President is assassinated? You can have the book or film or the filmed book or the book filmed. War? Send in the novelists. A series of gruesome murders? Listen for the tramp of the poets. We have to understand it, of course, the catastrophe, however minimally. Why did it happen, this mad act of Nature, this crazed human moment? Well, at least it produced art. Perhaps, in the end, that's what catastrophe is for. 

-Julian Barnes, A History of the world in 10 1/2 Chapters, 1989 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_the_World_in_10%C2%BD_Chapters

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