Hell, I'd prefer that the cost of art installations also come out of
military budgets.
It's not a bad thing to recognize that our pleasures, including aesthetic
pleasures, have a moral dimension and a social cost, no matter how intense
the pleasure. The objects of our pleasure neither appear nor disappear by
magic. I think we all place limits on what we consider allowable costs.
Much as I enjoyed it, fior me The Gates came close to being too much.
Mark
At 01:30 PM 3/1/2005, you wrote:
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>I'd prefer that that money come from military budgets.
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>Hal, who saw no tennis balls on poles, or anywhere else
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