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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 11:22:17 -0400
From: Stirling Newberry <allegro-AT-thecia.net>
Subject: Re: PLC: TUNA -- Trendy Usage of Nonsensical Additions


At 10:54 AM -0500 12/2/97, Eric Yost wrote:
>Stirling contended that " lazy people spend a great deal of energy on it.
>Just
>look at the internet."
>
>Of course, if they are that energetic about being lazy  ... it's probably a
>lazy sort of energy,  a perpetually-paradoxical state.
>
>Can we safely say that art requires energy, while entertainment doesn't?
>
>
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Depend on what you mean. From the performer or the audience? Entertaining
someone is hard work.


Stirling Newberry
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