Cool, who said that? Interesting, who said that? food for thoughts, who said that? thoughts for interesting cool food, who said that? shaped like an X and a Y with a pair in the corner, who said that? Through love, aharon It was 08:48 23/09/98 -0700, when { brad brace } emailed: ~ ~ "Perhaps the most hallowed of traditions among artists of creative ~ vigor is this: traditions in the creative arts are per se suspect. ~ For they exist on the patrimony of standardization, which means ~ degeneration. They dominate because they are to the interest of ~ some group that has the power to perpetuate them, and they cease ~ to dominate when some equally powerful group undertakes to bend them ~ to a new pattern. It is not difficult for the alert student to ~ acquire the traditional techniques. Under the pressures of study ~ these are unconsciously and all too easily absorbed. The extent ~ to which an individual can resist being blindly led by tradition ~ is a good measure of his (sic) vitality. ~ ~ "Traditions remain undisturbed when we say: let us improve ourselves; ~ let us become better pianists, teachers, conductors, better composers. ~ They remain undisturbed when we say: let us increase the knowledge ~ and appreciation of 'good' art. Traditions remain undisturbed, ~ univestigated, and therefore a culture based upon such ~ palpably noble precepts is already senile." H.P. ~ ~ ~__ ~ ~ ~The_12hr-ISBN-JPEG_Project since 1994 <<< ~ ~> serial ftp://ftp.wco.com/pub/users/bbrace < ~> eccentric ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace < ~> continuous ftp://ftp.teleport.com/users/bbrace < ~> hypermodern ftp://ftp.rdrop.com/pub/users/bbrace < ~> imagery online ftp://ftp.pacifier.com/pub/users/bbrace < ~ ~Usenet-news: alt.binaries.pictures.12hr/ a.b.p.fine-art.misc ~Mailing-list: [log in to unmask] / subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg ~Reverse Solidus: http://www.teleport.com/~bbrace/bbrace.html ~ ~{ brad brace } <<<< [log in to unmask] >>>> ~finger for pgp ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%