>> Depends on what you call "art".
>>
>> If by "art" you mean something like a skillful painter constructing a
>> giant painting of an epic vista, then yeah. I can appreciate that.
>>
>> If by "art" you mean somebody putting a pile of bricks in a corner and
>> selling it for 4.8 million USD because it's now "art"... no, I really
>> don't enjoy art at all.
>
> Same for me.  Now what about recursive, self-mirroring stories and music?  Is
> that not good art too?  Moreover, good art asking for the audience intellects to
> join in, rather than passively contemplate?
>
> sometimes, I fear you enjoy more the thrill of your hands running and jumping
> all over the organ keyboard than the sounds thus produced...

Now, see, music that does something technically impressive is just fine 
with me - so long as it's still *musical*. The thing I like about Bach 
is that his music has all this complex structure to it, but at the same 
time it's also /enjoyable/ to listen to. It's not just a theoretical 
exercuse. It *works* as music too.

PS. I hate peotry. I've never yet found any that wasn't utterly tedious.

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