N really P but on the historic sources of the authority of a vision. Link after quote.

[Ian Livingston]

Absolutely. If the sand turns you on, then whoever put it there
succeeded in communicating a message.

So I ask what M. Duchamp is doing on his toilet bowl, though I
existentially dread the ansewer.

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> While I like that, and it makes a lot of sense, I've always been drawn to
> aesthetic extremes. particularly in music. The "Sand in the Vaseline" effect
> relates to Ornette Coleman or Captain Beefheart, Edgar Varese and Harry
> Partch.
>
> It's not  just any toilet bowl, it's a Duchamp toilet bowl!
>
> On Sep 6, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Ian Livingston wrote:
>
>>> More prescient souls, however, sensed
>>> what Duchamp would eventually articulate so icily - if every choice is
>>> merely
>>> the artist's, why is one choice better than any other?
>>
>> Because one choice of imagery, action, sensory observation, language,
>> etc. generally more successfully elicits the desired or some desirable
>> responses in an audience.
>
>



-- 
"liber enim librum aperit."