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Subject: 
Re: Swearing?
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Date: 
Thu, 6 Jan 2000 05:07:35 GMT
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Jasper Janssen wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 17:25:13 GMT, "Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >  Boy-oh-boy! I can't tell you how delighted I am to read that!  I am _sick to
> > death_ of that Postmodernist "all is art" nonsense!  Such a definition seems
> > to imply that anything requiring or allowing interpretation is art, and is by
> > extension roughly equivalent to saying that nothing is art.
> 
> Yup. There is no useful definition of art.

Why???  This statement seems more lazy than profound.  Try.

-John

> "All is art" or "none is
> art" are no less useful than any others you care to offer.
> 
> Jasper



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  Re: Swearing?
 
(...) Yup. There is no useful definition of art. "All is art" or "none is art" are no less useful than any others you care to offer. Jasper (27 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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