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> From: Mark Erik Nielsen <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: Art Science connections
> Date: Thursday, October 17, 1996 9:33 AM
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> Catagories and titles are a mere convenience of language. The ability to
> describe something limits ones experience. Another crisis of the human
> intellect.


no, I beg to differ, the ability to describe heightens one experience,
preserves ones experience, allows one to share that experience with others.
 There are some concepts that I agree it would be nice if we could not
describe them so easily: spears, guns, thermonuclear weapons, et al.
Conversely without the ability to describe there is no literature, no art,
or at least no art history, and no way to communicate love, hope, pride, et
al.  Communication is vital to humans, crucial to civilization.  Sloppy
communication and lazy thinking are the enemy, not communication.


Frank E. Thomson, III
Curator, Asheville Art Museum
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