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From: chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: The Problems With Science Fiction Today - a reply
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Date: Sun, 9-Jun-85 02:01:08 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  9 02:01:08 1985
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> In article <2139@topaz.ARPA> henry%clemson.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa writes:
> >
> >You throw forth your opinions as if they were fact. They are not. Absolutely
> >ALL artistic appreciation is opinion. Nothing else. Just because a majority
> 	Nonsense !! The often-hazy thing called "QUALITY" does exist, but you
> 	will not know it until it hits you right on the face. (For edification,
> 	refer to ZEN_AND_THE_ART_OF_MOTORCYCLE_MAINTENANCE by R. M. Pirsig)
> 	That is why, Michelangelo is not "just another" sculptor, and that is
> 	why #_OF_THE_BEAST is suitable for any trashcan, whereas THE_SHEEP_
> 	LOOK_UP is not, whether or not you may believe otherwise.

	Quality may exist, but it exist only to the person deeming what 
	he/she considers quality.  There is no, *NO* absolute measure of
	quality.  I veritably refuse to believe that there is.

> >does not make the opinion RIGHT. You have your opinions and I have mine.
> 	Very good.. now, which one do you think is closer to the TRUTH ???
> 	(e.g. calling #OFTB a piece of trash vs. calling it a 
> 	literary masterpiece, to be remembered by generations to come!!)

	Ah, so if someone like #OFTB, he is therefore delusioned?  Perhaps
	he should be re-educated to remove this delusion?

> >
> >for enjoyment. If no one read for fun, the publishing industry would be
> >practically non-existant. As for science fiction, it would never have gone
> >beyond The War of the Worlds (an excellent book, but the field doesn't end
> >with that one title).
> 	Ah, but perhaps we could do just as well, with just half of what
> 	is published. DOes one have to read a lot of nonsense to have
> 	fun ???
>
	Sometimes, yes.  If you want something bad enough, you have to struggle
	to get it.
 
	Chris Andersen