[ilds] Self-starters

[Bruce Redwine]

I confess to preferring metaphors, personifications, and reifications, and take no offense at RP, a real self-starter and vast improvement over the old Triumphs.


BR

-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Pine <richardpin at eircom.net>
>Sent: Nov 11, 2007 10:32 AM
>To: jcu <jcu at execulink.com>, ilds at lists.uvic.ca
>Subject: Re: [ilds] reality not semantic
>
>I didnt know Bruce Redwine was a woman. Are you?
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: jcu 
>  To: Richard Pine ; ilds at lists.uvic.ca 
>  Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 5:21 PM
>  Subject: Re: [ilds] reality not semantic
>
>
>  Dear Richard Pine,
>
>  The personification of "Art" aside, you must be
>  a crotchety old coote to publically reply to someone's 
>  email like this. Or is it just women on this list that you 
>  are pre-disposed to ruflling? I don't think Durrell would 
>  be quite so harsh in his social demeanor, if he had had 
>  email access to on-line discussions.
>
>  ... would he? 
>
>  Just kickstarting a near-dormant list  
>  but otherwise, lurking to learn ...
>
>  joan
>  (and btw, as a lover of all waterfowl,
>  cootes and grebes do fascinate)
>
>
>    ----- Original Message ----- 
>    From: Richard Pine 
>    To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca ; Bruce Redwine 
>    Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:17 PM
>    Subject: Re: [ilds] reality not semantic
>
>
>    This is boring.
>      ----- Original Message ----- 
>      From: william godshalk 
>      To: Bruce Redwine ; ilds at lists.uvic.ca 
>      Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 6:36 PM
>      Subject: [ilds] reality not semantic
>
>
>      I do not think this is about semantics. This is about reality and obscuring reality by verbiage.
>
>      Art does not create its own world. Even artists do not create their own worlds. But isn't it pretty to think that they do? 
>
>      And this is about ideas. 
>
>      Cynical Old William
>
>
>      At 10:52 PM 10/29/2007, you wrote:
>
>        Now we are getting pedantic.  First it's about grammar, now about semantics.  I thought the List was interested in discussing ideas.
>
>        BR
>
>        -----Original Message-----
>        >From: william godshalk <godshawl at email.uc.edu>
>        >Sent: Oct 29, 2007 6:51 PM
>        >To: Bruce Redwine <bredwine1968 at earthlink.net>, ilds at lists.uvic.ca
>        >Subject: Re: [ilds] Throwing Dust
>        >
>        >Art creates its ownworld.
>        >Well, really, art creates and does nothing. Next time you find art atwork, please let me know. People, of course, create things. Not art. Ithink we should resist reification.
>        >
>        >Bill