(This is part 2. Read part 1 first!)
The first way I thought of distinguishing between the art
that includes spatulas and the art that includes The Odyssey was to say that
the first has to do with needs and the second does not. But then King
Lear said to me “O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars are in the poorest
thing superfluous.” by which I understand him to be saying that, if we reduce
our considerations to “needs”, we might find we slip down a pretty steep slope
and end up with little or nothing left.
