Surely the whole point of the Ern Malley episode was that the critics who projected meanings onto the poems were seen to be the idiots. And, unless I'm mistaken, that was the joker's 'intention' in the first place. They were fundamentally the same kind of idiots who hail computer generated pictures or the daubs of chimpanzees as works of art. A landscape or a piquant human face may arouse all kinds of emotions but they cannot be regarded as pieces of art until an individual human mind has deliberately worked to transform them into something else altogether. That intended outcome by one man or woman is what qualifies it to be even considered as an art work. (And don't talk to me about the moving effects achieved by the commuinal improvisations of the local student theatre group.) Scottie B.