RE: A Sensibility of Worth

This sums it up for you John. Yet there are only so many hours in a day and
so many days in a life and you do after all choose. Criteria. It seems
that you do after all have a criteria for your choosing but you, for some
reason, fail to reveal them. Is your criteria merely what makes your heart
flutter or tickles your left ear lobe? If it isn't any thing more than that
then why do you care about how other define their criteria? Or is this all
about you exercising your rhetoric?

Again, radically personal aesthetics only takes you back to that Island
where Wilson is your only friend.
Daniel

Why bother?

And, besides, it all leaves out so much.
"We are not," a famous writer once said, "bound to decide."

Refusing at least this form of bondage, I wish you all the best,

--John

PS: You write: "I can look to Shakespeare to teach me about language more
effectively than I can look to a television ad."

Don't be too sure of that. If it's a question of "effective," I can offer
some conflicting testimony from the classroom. But, in any case, even if
this is true, I still don't understand the need to draw the lines, to say
"more" and "less," as if this was a competition between texts, an aesthetic
sport. It's a game I'd rather not play, I guess.
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Received on Mon Dec 15 15:12:16 2003