XPost: rec.music.bluenote, rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz   
   From: jcmartin@sonic.net   
      
   The Enunciator wrote:   
      
   > JC Martin wrote:   
   >   
   >>j_nscott@msn.com wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>Hi Steven,   
   >>>   
   >>>Consider this activity: You go to an exhibit, and a work there   
   >   
   > provokes   
   >   
   >>>you to think about our relationship to the universe, and you like   
   >   
   > the   
   >   
   >>>work, and consider it beautiful. Why shouldn't that be considered   
   >   
   > you   
   >   
   >>>being entertained? Is it that "entertainment" connotes activities   
   >   
   > that   
   >   
   >>>are in some way inferior to that activity?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>When if I consider the work brutal, ugly, frightening and thought   
   >>provoking?  Not all art brings me pleasure.  But all art certainly   
   >   
   > makes   
   >   
   >>me think about my relationship with the universe.   
   >>   
   >>-JC   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > An admitedly pretentious endeavor, but nevertheless you exposue   
   > yourself to such vulgarities because the payoff is one that brings you   
   > some degree of pleasure.   
      
      
   False.  That may be the case for you, but certainly not me.   
      
   -JC   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)