[lit-ideas] Re: Sense and its Sums


On Feb 27, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Donal McEvoy wrote:

  I gave as an
example, flies laying eggs in Mongolia in April of 1562.
Ha!  Now that we know how often Tamil males under the age of
ten who have access to computers express irritation at not
finding fine rhymes, we shall have to revise our notion of
available data.  If not history.
Karl Popper: "We are taught to think that the violent contests between corrupt factions is what constitutes history. But this is only history from a certain POV. From another POV the movement of a fly on a page may be much more important history." 



To what extent is a sho-fly a "work of art"?
See bottom of this web page for ref: http://www.horsehairart.com/ art_work/sho_fly/sho_fly.htm 

David Ritchie,
provoked to crustlessness by the balm, not ignoring Ursula's minty query in 
Portland, Oregon
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