File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1998/avant-garde.9806, message 112


Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:55:26 -0400
From: Ostrow/Kaneda <so5-AT-is2.nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: response to Brad {was Re: avant-garde failing-fortune


>> I guess I'm unable to appreciate the "humour" of this piece.
>
>George, I don't intend to keep bothering you, but what does the above
>mean, exactly?
>Do you mean that when H&H say, for example, that they demand "Compulsory
>adherence
>of all clergymen and teachers to the Dadaist articles of faith" and
>"Immediate
>regulation of all sexual relations according to the views of international
>Dadaism through establishment of a Dadaist sexual center", they expect
>these demands
>to be met?  Or that they think that they have a program for political
>action that
>will realize these demands?  Or what?  How exactly do you see the intent
>of this
>piece?
>
>There is a difference between not appreciating the humour and reading the
>piece
>as if some of its most glaring features were a result of oversight or idiocy.
>What reason is there to read it that way?
>
>
>-m
>
 I think we are missing the point that thisis a satire of the demand of the
"church's" demand to  be able to regulate peoples beliefs and behavior --
they are just presenting  sentiments that were put forth seriously into a
more frivilous context in order that their absudity be made apparent.




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