> So, I don't buy it. We are in a trough. I think thsi
> is quite general -- classical music is dead,
> literature is snoozing, visual art is spotty,
> philosophy is living off capital, etc.
Well, I don't buy your judgments about classical music and literature, at least. But these are all personal aesthetic judgments that we could argue about till the moo-moos come home.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, 'You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.' -- Sir Arnold Bax