Post #198369 by Gigantalope on Wed, Nov 16, 2005 6:54 AM

I don't think it should become a "Whose side are you on" topic, like Abortion, or Mime Torture.

It's never been possible to encapsulate "ART" by the writen word...

There is a odd but interesting book by Tony Horowitz called "Confederates in the Attic" about traveling with Civil War reinactors.

Within this gaggle there is a heirachy of who is "Hard Core" (What makes them hard-core is the ability to become emaciatedly thin, smear themselve with rancid animal fat and stand thier own smell, and own clothes from the 1860s

At the end of summer they get into thier mini-vans and go back to the suburbs, and sell insurance (or what ever)

The point is they are not really in the confederate army.

We are not in Pre-Cook Polinesia.

I do think Studying the classic pieces, and learning from them is superlative tho, however...just making sawdust is really the bond those people have with us.

I'll go home now