XPost: rec.music.bluenote, rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz   
   From: bornfeldmung@dentaltwins.com   
      
   The Enunciator wrote:   
      
   > Steven Bornfeld wrote:   
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   >>The Enunciator wrote:   
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   >>>Mark & Steven Bornfeld wrote:   
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   >>>>	I'd rather let them speak for themselves.  I'm a dentist.  Those   
   >>>>artists I've known tell me they wish to provoke thought about their   
   >>>>relationship to the universe in some way.   
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   >>>>From this they derive some sense of satisfaction, no?  They are in   
   >>>essence entertaining themselves while attempting to entertain   
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   > others   
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   >>>(assuming they wish to exhibit their work, which they must since   
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   > they   
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   >>>are trying to provoke).   
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   >>	I'm not sure that you can equate satisfaction with entertainment.   
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   > Why not?   
      
   	Sorry.  You may well equate satisfaction with entertainment; I choose   
   not to.   
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   >>>At least among those that you know.  There are of course artists   
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   > who   
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   >>>_do_ make a living at entertaining others.   
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   >>	Sure.  That doesn't mean it is the primary motivation.   
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   > Of course not.  They may be happy simply entertaining themselves.   
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   >>I can assure   
   >>you that my patients frequently derive satisfaction from my   
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   > treatment.   
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   >>I guess this makes me an entertainer.   
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   > Of a kind, perhaps.   
      
   	I knew we'd find something we can agree on.   
      
   Steve   
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   --   
   Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS   
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