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From: prem@eagle.UUCP (Swami Devanbu)
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Subject: Lack of Elevated Cilium
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 09:40:01 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 09:40:01 1985
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<Begin Subdued hisses and sputters>

This missive is by way of expressing distress at the near-total
lack of reviews, comments etc in recent times on non-fiction
that has high-brow pretentions. For example, has anyone
read "The Minimal Self" ? What sayest thee on it ? Or the
even Low Low brow stuff, like "Deadly Gambits", or 
"CIA- Secrecy and Democracy" ? Come on, laddies and lassies,
let your lights shine forth ! 

Let me start off- 

Christopher Lasch says that minimal music, with its focus
purely on the nature of sound, with the exclusion of personal
expression, is a symptom of the primary narcissism of  our
times.. a reluctance to accept the essential sovereignity and
seprateness of the self. Do you agree ? I don't. One could,
contrariwise argue that letting sounds (or brushstrokes, or
phrases) run wanton is a sign of a deeper kind of self
awareness.. the kind that dares to elucidate the deeper
levels of conciousness in artistic forms WITHOUT having
them filtered by cognitive processes.

Let's hear some arguments... are there any Melanie Klein
or Otto Kerberger fans out there who can shed a psychoanalytic
light (gloom ?) on this ?


Swami Devanbu

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