JK: Only the most important topics are dangerous. I'm not sure I'd agree with that. I would however agree that the most dangerous topics are always important. Mike Geary generally considered a dangerous man in Memphis especially when driving ----- Original Message ----- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 11:58 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Beauty, anyone? Julie Krueger ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Beauty, anyone? Date: 2/19/2007 11:45:48 A.M. Central Standard Time From: mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent on: I've seen friendships end over the question of beauty. (Maybe David Ritchie's better qualified to address part of this.) Two friends -- one a prizewinning poet, the other a professor at CalArts -- got into it one night at a party. The professor (a charming Australian woman who makes installations) insisted that beauty was totally irrelevant to artistic projects. The poet (who lives with his wife and family in the foothills of the Flatirons) insisted that she was merely following fashionable nonsense, which if practiced globally, would lead to the literal end of all art. They never got over it. After that night, they never spoke again. They had known each other for years. (I first met her at his wedding.) Beauty is a dangerous topic. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html