[lit-ideas] Re: To what extent must we appreciate cucumber sandwiches?

On a negative note, you've started that tendency to rename threads. This is not 
ok when one doesn't follow every thread. Also you have left out "on its own 
terms", so the key point is now missing. And, except for those for whom "cuc. 
sandw." are "art", your re-phrasing is doubly misleading.

Back to the now lost original question, which no-one seems sufficiently 
inclined to address...

Here's a starter:
1. There are many senses and POVS from which a work of art cannot set its own 
standard (including the almost logical one that,if it could, there would be no 
independent standards - everything would achieve the standard it set itself, in 
a trivial sense).
2. There may nevertheless be a sense in which we should try to appreciate a 
WOArt on its own terms.

Maybe we should explore 1 and 2 or maybe we should simply have another "cuc. 
iche".

D







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