In a message dated 12/20/2001 4:05:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> Art exists
> not just to mirror our world, but to make sense of it.
>

I going to have more to say later on the issue of Pound and coherence, but
the above is just nonsense.  One does not subordinate art to sense, quite the
opposite.  The above remark is revealing in that it clearly represents one
side of the friction between the artist and the critic.  The critic is always
willing, or so it seems to me, to subordinate art to one thing or another at
the drop of a hat, almost always to serve some ulterior purpose -- usually to
prove the critic's point.

joe brennan....