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[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Provocative post, Andrew. Feeling our warmth across the pond?  Correct me if I am 
wrong, but as I kabbalistically twist and turn the warp and woof of your gnostic comment, 
it appears that you are going a long way around (to come in the back door?) to set up your  
*cheap parting shot.* Your idea seems to me to boil down to a dichotomy you are positing 
between (1) some sort of reasoning/perceptual mode that recognizes the ultimate 
sufficiency--in all human and natural phenomena apparently--of what you somewhat 
gnostically call *well known and  perfectly-clear-thank-you-very-much meanings* and (2) 
on the other hand, some pseudo-mystical self-obsessed and ultimately, perhaps, evil, 
mode of reasoning that seeks meaning along many dimensions, signified through form, 
implicit, multiple.  Of course you couldn't be reducing it to such simplistic and obviously 
false dichotomies, could you? You don't know what art is but you know what you like?  
But if you are, could you please post me (privately if you don't want to share it with the 
world) the *well known and perfectly clear thank you very much* meaning of  life? 

On a further puzzling note, Pointsman and the *art critics* in your post seem to be on the 
same side!  How odd.  Do you really think the kind of truth Pointsman is after is anything 
like the kind of truth posited by either the existence or the study of art, of any medium?   
(BTW,, who sez the kabbalists and gnostics were--wrong? (speaking of paranoia!))

john m