Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 12:30:52 -0800
Subject: MB: Re:  Runny Silence


Edward Moore,

  What art resists placement in a museum?  What frame escapes the
metaphor, or this give and take with silence you locate expressly behind
museum frames?

  Certainly the pentatonic scale, YOUR greatest Western music, the
utilization of anything, and what you accept as beauty, submit to
definitions and shape subject to recognized limits.  The idler, always
defined as such from another's perspective, resigns himself to such
designations, such imputations.  Thought itself, some would argue,
requires a certain leisure instead, or at least the narrow
conceptualizations we take for freedom.  Doesn't this suggest more of an
openness than resignation, more of a jouissance?  Do you not further
find that surrender (as jouissance may require?) allows for greater
possibilities than resignation?  

  Finally, what distinguishes thought from music?  Music can never be so
free of discrimination.  Music can never be cut from all thought (as
thought can) without clinging at least to an absence of thought.


Perhaps music is a state, thought an action; both ineffable. 

W/a nod chaos makes neat...