[lit-ideas] Re: The Prizeless Art of Yoko Ono
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:33:16 -0600
Seems to me "priceless" should mean it has no price, it's worthless. I've
written many priceless poem, but I've never made a priceless repair.
Mike Geary
Memphis
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1:13 PM, <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> In a message dated 2/20/2010 12:44:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
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> What a mistake it would be to ever leave the house without a complete
> collection of Yoko's work (in our heads), in particular her conceptual art
> pieces IMAGINE IMAGINING, BAGGING A BEATLE and WHAT'S FOR DINNER TONIGHT.
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> Donal
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> --- Well, yes. And as she notes: "price" and "prize" are really "the same
> word". "His work is priceless", "His work is prizeless". "Surely, as things
> stand NOW, an artist will not be recognised unless he is prized by the
> authorities who have the prize to prize him, as well, turning him onto a
> horse".
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> Yoko wrote "Grapefruit" as a pun for Brecht (his friend) as his Yam-Yam
> concerts. These were held in "May" (acronym of "Yam") and to prove that the
> best art is both priZeless and priCeless.
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> --- J. L. Speranza
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