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Date: | Fri, 23 Aug 1996 00:36:35 -0700 |
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MusmDesign wrote:
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> Libraries and museums are repositories for dead thoughts and images. Get
> real! People want fasterness to satisfy their carnal desires,
> "Touchy/feely" without exposing themselves to their surroundings both
> physically and spiritually. If it ain't tomorrow it's in the past. A
> better name for library is probably "Libre ex Morto e Finito". I know
> it's longer than the word "library" but Lorenzo de'Medici and his
> ancestors would find it appropriately poetic, pathetic, and prophetic.
You remind me of my brother-in-law, a composer who insists that no-one
should perform or listen to the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Copland, etc.
because it's all "dead" music (in fact, I think he thinks music is dead a
month after it's written). And I don't agree with either of you!
--
Janis Beth Wilkens
Curator of Collections/Interim Director
Museum of York County
4621 Mt. Gallant Road, Rock Hill, SC 29732
803-329-2121 Fax: 803-329-5249
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