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From: scott@hou2g.UUCP (Racer X)
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Subject: Re: Ken Moreau, Spider Robinson, Art, Helen Keller, and Me
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Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 11:17:52 EDT
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Oh, for cryin' out loud!

Why don't you get off you goddamn soapbox, you pompous jerk.
Or is it too much to lower yourself to the level of us
"barbaric", "uneducated" peons?

There is a clear difference between "art" and a "good read".
It lies in the fact that a good read is something judged by
*the reader*, according to *his/her* tastes.  "Art" is too
often determined by a bunch of egocentric idiots who think they 
know it all because they were "educated" (by a similar bunch of 
idiots, naturally).  What the hell is art, anyway?  It's usually 
a COMPLETELY ARBITRARY evaluation, and as such, meaningless.

Art, as you seem to espouse it, differs little from the "gurus" who
decide (for the world, or at least those foolhardy enough to pay
attention) what colors and fashions will be "in" two years from now.

			Scott J. Berry