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would simply like to point out that to declare the death of the avant garde is to commit an avant garde act. It is to announce a change, as decisively as one can. Granted that novelty has become mere commodity, still, to say anything worth hearing depends upon a difference. Even the New Formalists figgered they had something new to show. In the event, they turned out to be wannabe Old Formalists; the avant garde has much more sense of what formalism can be. David %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%