Subject: Re: Beautiful Bag
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 10:29:30 EST
Can't really speak for anyone else, but I've already said the beauty wasn't in the bag, but in the person seeing the beauty in the bag. . .
which assumes, of course, that the experience was non-transferable. It just takes a certain kind of person to have that kind of experience.
I'm too self-directed to care much for rebellion.
Jim
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Matt Kozusko wrote:
> > I've consulted several telephone astrologers (and, with all due regard
> > to the once-great David Lowery, the I-Ching), but to no avail. There
> > is something in me--something extra-cosmic, apparently--that doesn't
> > like a bag.
> >
> > It was a neat idea. It was fun to watch. But to say that beauty's in
> > the bag...it's a little too cute. A little too "deep." Cute and
> > "deep" don't go so well together.
>
> Yeah, have to agree with Matt here. I think the problem is that if
> you're the original person who has the moment of realizing the bag, then
> it is significant, maybe it's even Zen enlightenment. But I don't think
> anyone who comes to the scene and is presented with, "Hey look at this.
> This is art. This is life." comes away with anything but, "This is a
> bag." The experience is non-transferable. I feel everyone's subscription
> to it as "beautiful" as part of their willingness to rebel against the
> establishment. There is no way the establishment will consider it art, so
> everyone who hates establishment is compelled to think it is. Imagine if
> this "most beautiful think I ever felt" ended up winning an Oscar: "Now,
> in the category of best supporting inanimate object we have: the Boat
> from "Titanic", the Red Beret from "Rushmore", and, finally, the Bag from
> "American Beauty. And the winner is . . ." Come'on guys.
>
> Besides, they didn't once show the guy just out of frame with the leave
> blower.
>
> > Paper or plastic?
>
> Paper, of course. I don't want her to suffocate.
>
> -j
>
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