Re: RAT There's nothing wrong with being elitist....

["Adam" <kafclown@well.com>]

I'm pretty sure that I'll be there as well!  (Barring some emergency clown
outage in another city that requires my attendance.)

And I think there should definitely be a HIGH CHEEZE CHALLENGE.
(Although I'm not necessarily willing to give up Carlos, even though I've
never officially taken possession of him.  He is his own man, after all...)
I'm sure that Carlos will be there, all 10 feet of him!

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>From: "Glen 'Skip' Newell" <skipworthy@hotmail.com>
>To: <rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com>
>Subject: Re: RAT There's nothing wrong with being elitist....
>Date: Sun, Feb 4, 2001, 9:22 PM
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> Schedinski wrote-
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>> I agree with Skip in the general sense about how he
>> reads Artaud, but would add that the 'clinging' is
>> carried on to this day
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> Precisely- hence the discussion we are now having. The Theatre of Cruelty is
> a LIVING thing...
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>>...the rhetoric we are bouncing around trying
>> to define a masterpiece seems for the most part
>> self-serving.
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> Is it? I see levels emerging here- and one of them is the question of whom
> we 'serve' by our work ( We meaning 'artists', hence the debage of
> populism).
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>  I can't say honestly that I know, in any
>> practical sense, what "an expression which is timeless
>> and also without comparison in it's {sic} genre"
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> I apologize for the gaffe of syntax- passion has it's price, I guess...What
> I meant, though, was to lend some solidity to what is ( you are right, it is
> an impractical thing) an essentially  abstract and somewhat subjective idea,
> just to serve as a kind of summary. I would welcome a better one...
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>> ...I think we are better suited on this list to
>> talk more frankly about what we are trying to do,
>> rather than shoot for the moon by saying what we
>> believe a masterpiece to be.
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> But that IS what we are trying to do, most of us...or at least a very
> important aspect of it. Besides, there are some really gifted people who
> take part in these discussions, and some truly fascinating points of view. I
> ,for one,  wouldn't want it any other way...
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> Skip
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