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>From: smoliar@hilbert.iss.nus.sg (stephen smoliar)
Subject: Re: A bas les esperances! (Re: Intelligence, awareness, and esthetics)
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Date: Tue, 12 May 1992 12:50:36 GMT

In article <untqfINN4t6@agate.berkeley.edu> eliot@ocf.berkeley.edu (Eliot
Handelman) writes:
>
>In any case, I don't claim that all music necessarily doesn't involve
>context -- though, as above, I'd rather argue about  how music provides
>context, emotional or attentional, to all of the other media. In america
>hardly anything does without music. You are arguing, "music hardly does
>without anything." So which is it?
>
Why does this have to be an either/or question?  Why can't the supporting
information flow both ways?  The loop is not unlike the one Minsky talks
about closing in THE SOCIETY OF MIND.
>
>>Brendan Gill recently published a memoir about Joseph Campbell in THE NEW
>>YORK
>>REVIEW.  His basic argument is that you can go only so far with "follow your
>>bliss."  After that, it does not take long for self-indulgence and hypocrisy
>>to take over.  However, if the hot tub fits, I would be the last to deprive
>>you of your right to wear it.
>
>Are you suggesting that only hot-tubbing Californians are self-indulgent and
>hypocritical?


AU CONTRAIRE!  The Gill memoir was about when Campbell was a New Yorker.
Furthermore, my memory may be wrong;  but I think the episode took place
at the Athletic Club.  We can substitute a steam room for a hot tub if you
wish!
-- 
Stephen W. Smoliar; Institute of Systems Science
National University of Singapore; Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Kent Ridge, SINGAPORE 0511
Internet:  smoliar@iss.nus.sg


