Doublereed Archive - Posting 000063.txt from 2003/04

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] [Dblrd-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 23:39:59 -0400

"More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint

abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music, is that people shou
ld
admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meanin
g
or principle.

-Eric Hoffer (1902=E2=80=931983) U.S. philosopher
Reflections on the Human Condition, aph. 104 (1973)