The Changing of the 'Garde and more rambling.

Vincent A. Maeder vmaeder at cyhc-law.com
Wed May 28 12:29:59 CDT 2003


Malignd wrote>>Sounds like hambone.<<

	You got me on that one.  Hambone?

>>And lest I come off as more disagreeable than usual, I'm not arguing
that there's nothing new ever again to be; more with the term avant
garde and the, I think, overly romantic notion that clings to it of
changing the society via radical art, shocking the establishment, etc.<<

	I agree with your sentiment, Mal.  Perhaps it is our brains
tripping on our tongues that allows our language to wag the thought
process.  You can understand how the use of avant-garde lends a certain
economy to the communication here, no?  V.




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