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Read 'The Children of Men' by P.D. James and you'll remember why dead
people are so important to us. Without a past there is no future! Why does
this guy work for museums with a cynical attitude like that anyway?
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Mark Nielsen
Exhibit Designer/Preparator
University of Michigan Museum of Art
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On Fri, 23 Aug 1996, Janis Wilkens wrote:
> MusmDesign wrote:
> >
> > 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.
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> 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
> mailto:[log in to unmask]
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