Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:38:42 -0400
From: ostrow-AT-is2.nyu.edu (Ostrow/Kaneda)
Subject: Re: just a thought


>> I sell people a sensation of history, permanence, and tradition that they
>> can't experience truthfully, and can only afford as a well crafted
>> simulation.


 -Michael
You don't sell them anything other than the skill to create effects that
recall the patina of the well worn-- these in turn have come to represent
loss and the sentiments that go with it -- nostalgia.  Nostalgia has
nothing to do with the  sensation of history, permanence, and tradition--
which is usually anxiety or a sense of well being.




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