Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 01:45:53 -0500 (EST)
From: TMB <tblan-AT-telerama.lm.com>
Subject: Re: God help us, back to tropes


On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Matthew King wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Jon Rubin wrote:
> 
> > The "if you need to ask what it is, you're never going to know" while 
> > fine for jazz is not so useful for politics.
> 

Oh, I introduced the line (The jazz guy said, "If you has to ask, you
doesn't know", vis a vis the question, "what is jazz", I didn't mention
the question.) In any event: it is different from "one will never know",
which is typical of the hubristic atmosphere that makes far reaching
aspersions ("you will never know, you idiot"). No, just at a certain time,
if onehas to ask, one might not know.

TMB