Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:23:03 -0500
From: Barry Smylie <barrysmylie-AT-iname.com>
Subject: Re: Defrocking the Artist


i don't know malgosia... i might be a bad bad low class monster idiot
i want to know... how i appear to others
my aesthetics prof was surprised that i actually handed in a paper on the
differnce between baroque and rococoo
said to me "i thought you were an anti intellectual".
one of my classmates arranged a film in which he barfed on the text book (he
got a better mark than me)

i spend most of my time in my painting studio or on the computer making stuff
i confess... don't have much time to read
i like reading these emails though - because i get to write back

where did you get the article for free?
i signed up at the NYT got a password and to access the article had to pay 2.50

the sequences about the money...
they didn't read as humorous to you?
sort of socially barbed?
you didn't even giggle a bit
hehehe (like in a chat)

  : ) smylie



malgosia askanas wrote:

> Barry, you could have read the article for free, so stop cmplaining about
> the $2.50.  Secondly, what is this crap about "name dropping"?  The idea
> is that if I listen to Janet Jackson and watch Spielberg movies then it is
> fine to say so, but if I listen to Ligeti and watch Paul Sharits movies
> then I should shut my mouth, because if I mention it, it's "name dropping"?
> Is that it?  We have a permanent open season for anti-intellectualism
> and reverse snobbery?  This is supposed to be something one wears proudly?
> Excuse me while I barf.  If you feel inferior because you haven't read
> Sylvia Plath, then read her.  What is the big fucking deal?
>
> -m
>
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