Well maybe not, but each practitioner may find it important to keep
making it new for her- or him- self; if we didnt learn new things &
try them would we get anywhere?
Doug
On 25-Apr-10, at 6:31 PM, Jeffrey Side wrote:
> I don't think it's unworthy, just that most of it sees itself as
> being radically different than, say, Joyce or Stein. There seems to
> be a compulsion "to make it new" for the sake of it. I see no
> inherent merit in newness per se.
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