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Thread #100555 Message #2018892
Posted By: Amos
07-Apr-07 - 01:29 AM
Thread Name: Is 'A' better than 'B'?
Subject: RE: Is 'A' better than 'B'?
Good on you for reviving that wonderful work.
It treads on dangerous ground though. Sure there is goodness and badness in an construction or performance, against the standards of expectation. But tse are the postulates of expectation and are generated by the viewer. He can use ones he was trainedin, or he can use ones he inherited from Aunt Zelda or he can stir them up from his primordial sense of loss in life, or from his inkling of divinity.
Popularity begins when one meets a sort of average of all those projections in the bullseye of agreement.
But sometimes people will fool you because a work taps a vein of these expectations that was not hitherto widely admitted or understood and reveals it.