On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:22:14PM -0800, Quinn Tyler Jackson wrote:

> > We've been around this before, Quinn, but I really don't think
> > critics are parasites or second-level (in the Platonic sense)
> > thinkers; I don't think they are hitching a ride.  I've seen
> > criticism that is a thousand times more creative than the
> > original work it is discussing.  Criticism is a natural human
> > activity, like art, and it IS an art.
> 
> Heck, there's a whole chapter in JI that goes into how important the
> critic/viewer/reader is to the process.

It's on my list, but things are pretty hectic.

> My comment about too many critics wasn't meant in much seriousness.
> 
> I believe that readers, critics, et al. complete the work. Without
> them -- the work is dead paper.

Heh.  I guess my sense of humor has gone missing.  I'll try to
drag it out from under the bed soon.

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"I will open my heart to a blank page
   and interview the witnesses."  John M. Ford, "Shared World"

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