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Don't to bend the topic. That would be absurd.



 . . . You only have to realize that there is no topic.

Jean Bauudrillard is a brilliant flake who giggles when he is quoted (I
suspect).

Melanie--

To make your sense of "prettiness" work in smarty pants a and e culture,
all you gotta do is find a way to theorize the aesthetic and
communicative value of prettiness.  No time to figure it out now, but I
suspect that such theory has something to do with the fact that physical
beauty or ugliness is actually part of the message machinery of the
movie.  Go Marx: how does the beauty of the film fit or not fit with the
material coditions depicted?  Moving thus, you might find that a movie
like Spielberg's _The Color Purple_ is remarkably and ironically and
confusingly beautiful give its cotent.  Um.  Maybe.  But, anyway,
Daughters of the Dust is a quiet, beautiful film.  You might love it.

Kelvin--

Thanks.  :)

All--

Ridiculously off-topic: Can someone in  chemistry please give me a clue
about entropy?  (Please, no lit aswers and no Pynchon fans; I'm trying to
subvert him.)  Specifically, I'm looking for a quick way to understand
what is might by "etropy increases" vs. "entropy decreases."  I just had
a notion that a couple of you might be able to answer this.  Off list
answers are probably best.  :) 

Michael Knott show Saturday in Marion was amazing, as hoped.  OtR link:
played with Ticklepenny Corner redux (just the bro and sis) as opener and
then as back up folks.  (They're really very good and earthy ad *clearly*
Americana.)  The first thing Mike did was batter his guitar strings and
then holler into the venue without the mic.  This filled the venue
completely.

Still off-topic, ain't I?

Must go.

Fred
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