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Dave Lovely wrote: > is anyone >else familiar with the Northern (English) phrase, spoken dismissively, >"eee, you're neither use nor ornament" As in the Kansas version, "more for show than blow"? (from handkerchiefs) And re clarity, what about the argument that "clarity" (as in language as window, which does relate to the figuration/abstraction divide in painting, I think) distorts the truth by ignoring the thicket of compexity? Apologies if the discussion by now (I get digests) has surpassed -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%