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On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 15:59:41 -0500, Jim Charter <jrc### [at] msn com>
wrote:
>IMBJR wrote:
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>> Just because you expect it, does not mean it was not a stuggle.
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>You think you create a struggle for me? Your posture is hardly new,
>quite understandable, but no longer very credible to me. Expression,
>creative or otherwise, does not exist outside of a discourse to derive
>meaning from, and a receiver to be subject to that meaning. If you deny
>that necessity then my question to you remains, what are you showing
>your work to us for? My own answer is that you do not want to accept
>its dependency on an audience and that all audiences are local. And
>therefore you are not being totally honest with yourself.
>
>I submit to you that learning to accept this sometimes dreary fact is
>what is the struggle.
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>But you hide behind your passive-aggressive "posting policy" and your
>secretly encoded signature.
There's that pass-aggressive double-talk again. tut!
As for secretly-encoded, I reveled the code.
>
>> Mmm, obviously something up there. After all, I'm not doing any
>> charging.
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>I've asked the question before, that's all.
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>> As for the nick name "nonsense" that you yawn at, please give me an
>> example of where else you have seen that technique used to derive a
>> word.
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>My daughter comes home with various schoolyard games that involve
>assigning numbers to letters, applying some calculation then reassigning
>letters to the result. Other simple encryption technics might involve
>laying out some schema then reparsing it in some other way. But what
>makes me yawn is the general posture of secreting away content with a
>private method of encoding, hinting at the notion of entropy, and all
>with the conceit that no one else gets it. It's neither bad nor good,
>valid nor invalid, but you find it often enough in the artworld. Sorry
>if I let my scorn show. But you claim not to care how people respond.
So what?
I don't care.
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