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>Carrol Cox wrote:
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>> That is, Good Taste is displayed, regularly, by
>> displaying one's freedom from its opposite, Bad Taste (in some circles,
>> equated with vulgarity). One IS what one hates
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>What play from ca. 1900 contains a line something like, "We leave living
>to the servants"? That is the sort of attitude I was gunning for in my
>original post. It seems to me supercilious looks down the nose at
>insipidity, etc. exhibit that king of perspective.
I'm assuming this is all part of an effort at self-definition, or auto-critique, since you tell us what you hate several times a day. Either that, or you're a miffed Joan Baez fan.
Doug