Don't you bring *me into this, even if you are solid mahogany - a whole head
must be worth quite a bit
I shall receive the tape tomorrow and hope to view it then or maybe Friday
God... I bet the whole of western Europe's waiting to hear my opinion... Ha.
Beeswax is v good for mahogany
L
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Kennedy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 05 July 2000 12:18
Subject: Re: Hunting the Highbrow
| I'm sorry, I must have woken up with a head made of solid mahagony this
| morning, but I still don't get the point you're making. Are you suggesting
| that I'm only questioning Sinclair_ because_ he's an intellectual? If so,
| then please note that as a result of Lawrence Upton's response to my
| dismissal of the film Asylum, I've attempted to articulate my disquiet
over
| Sinclair and the aesthetic I see him as representing in a subsequent
posting
| to the one you partially quoted. Perhaps you would like to engage with the
| arguments there?
| cheers
| David
|
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: susanne <[log in to unmask]>
| To: David Kennedy <[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask]
| <[log in to unmask]>
| Date: 05 July 2000 10:23
| Subject: Re: Hunting the Highbrow
|
|
| >The essay "Hunting the Highbrow" was published by Leonard Woolf within
the
| >Hogarth Press in the twenties).
| >It is a satirical account of the suspicious attitude of the public
towards
| >the intellectuals and of intellectuals towards the public. The book
| contains
| >a very funny classifications of the Highbrows- (literally translated into
a
| >kind of macheronic Latinate terminology as the Altifrons: Altifrons
| >Altifrontes, Altifrons Aestheticus, Altifrons Altifrontissimus,
ect....The
| >essay is written half way between the style of a research study in the
| field
| >of Natural Sciences and Erewhom).
| >"Hunting the Highbrow" was never reprinted. It is very amusing, worth
| >reading.
| >The entire production of the Hogarth Press is now controlled by Chatto,
if
| >I remember well.
| >Sus-Anne
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >----- Original Message -----
| >From: David Kennedy <[log in to unmask]>
| >To: <[log in to unmask]>
| >Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 7:01 AM
| >Subject: Re: psycho-geography?
| >
| >
| >> Which means what exactly?
| >>
| >> -----Original Message-----
| >> From: susanne <[log in to unmask]>
| >> To: Paul Taylor <[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask]
| >> <[log in to unmask]>
| >> Date: 05 July 2000 01:06
| >> Subject: Re: psycho-geography?
| >>
| >>
| >> >Have you read Leonard Woof's essay "Hunting the Highbrows"?.
| >> >Well, given the recent comments, you should.
| >> >Susanne
| >> >
| >> >> >
| >> >> >| the self-regarding,
| >> >> >| pseudo intellectual tosh at the heart of the whole Sinclair
| >> >> >| psycho-geographic project.
| >> >>
| >> >> It looks to me as though Sinclair thinks that coining a phrase is
the
| >> same
| >> >> as founding an art.
| >> >>
| >> >>
| >> >> Paul Taylor.
| >> >>
| >> >>
| >>
| >>
| >>
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