Jon Corelis wrote:
> Is it possible to read poetry without theory?
>
> Is it possible to listen to music without theory?
>
> Is it possible to cheer Bogart's wisecracks in Casablanca without theory?
>
> Is it possible to weep at Orlando pleading before the Duke in As You
> Like it without theory?
>
> Is it possible to fuck without theory?
>
With theory.
You can sit in an opera house and listen to Schoenberg's Moses und Aron,
to Penderecki's The Devils of Loudun, or even to Puccini's La
Boheme...and if you're reading the libretto with a tiny flashlight
you're wasting your time. Go buy a record. Theory is life at 9th hand.
The first eight are the ones clapping in derisive unison.
kw
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Ken Wolman http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com/ http://www.petsit.com/content317832.html
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