I think what we are talking about is an emotional experience.You can have
an emotional experience at a movie, Disneyland, a museum, a memorial
museum at the site of a former concentration camp.


On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Gregory Scheib wrote:

> I appreciate you point of view on this subject, and perhaps "charmed" is the
> wrong term for the experience of walking through a concentration camp.  I
> would still maintain, however, that when you experience a place like that,
> or walk through the Holocaust Museum (and I have), there is a point where
> you are able to suspend your disbelief,  and you are transported
> (perhaps only for a moment) into the world created by the exhibit.  It
> may cause one to become sombered and horrified -- But that's part of the
> "captivated" I'm talking about. Your "riveted," I believe?
>
> Different exhibits captivate (engage) in various ways, some which would NOT
> be called entertaining in the "Boy, that was fun" sense.
>
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> On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Doug Lantry wrote:
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> > Just a thought on entertainment: I was not entertained by the walking
> > tour of the death camp at Dachau, but I was riveted and sobered.  And I
> > doubt that the people who run places like that, and, say, the Holocaust
> > Museum, seek to "charm" or "enchant" their audiences.
> >
> > Wouldn't it be nice if edification was as sought after as
> > entertainment?  It is, but only at participating outlets.
> >
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