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16 May 2024 22:36:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Just dawdling  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 24 May 2016 02:46:51
Message: <5743f8db$1@news.povray.org>
On 23-5-2016 14:55, clipka wrote:
> Am 23.05.2016 um 09:19 schrieb Thomas de Groot:
>
>> I agree with Kenneth: while the rules are there to be followed
>> strictly... they need also to be broken when artistic needs call for it
>> and yield interesting results.
>
> I'd like to put it this way:
>
> Rules are there to be respected -- every one of them, always, and
> without exception.
> But there is a difference between respect and obedience.
>

Absolutely. While I /respect/ the rules in every traditional way and for 
every traditional purpose, I certainly shall /disobey/ them if, for any 
reason, I can reach my goal through another way.

And let us be frank: if you were not told in the example under scrutiny, 
you would not know. :-)

-- 
Thomas


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