Sontag, "Happenings"

[Keith Obye]

How Dare you quote Tom Waits in support of such fluff!!!

In we go now entering my reading with no
> preconceptions,

If you are living and breathing and thinking this is impossible


> This Feel, this attitude combines an active form of desire
> and passivity toward the text's message.

What??  If one is passive towards message how is any distinction possible?

. But this
> Feel is dependent upon a basic ideological position that the
> human experience encapsulates certain fundamental undeniable
> truths and that a certain fundamental oneness of humankind
> is undeniable.

Sounds kind of Platonic eh?

How about this:

A quote from a poem called 'aesthetic' from _The Animals_ by Richard
Grossman

"...Your language is like farts

made out of leather, then stretched
and sometimes torn across a grate.

Underneath which meaning sinks
into a network of stinking pools.

You must think we're a bunch of fools
to buy your sense of linguistic beauty.

It is too thick, complex and nauseating."

Cheers, Keith  (Please recieve this as jestful prodding from an
anti-Platonic materialist)