In a message dated 3/9/10 10:20:45 PM, [email protected] writes:
> On Mar 9, 2010, at 10:12 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > Having the sensibility to perceive that, Sullivan, is essential to being > a > > truly estimable artist -- it is very often missing in highly creative > > people. But you have it, and all your devotees are luckier for it. > > Now Cherishkep, you're confusing me. I thought one would aspire to be an > *inestimable* artist. Hmmm. This word stuff is verrrrry hard to figure > out. > Ah, Michael, you're still young, so you have decades to learn. You'll learn to discern when one is using. . . but wait, YOU were the guy who first recognized -- not at kitchen table but polite dining room table usage-- the use of a term 'artist' as an HONORIFIC. Be assured that at an academic long table I would never use the term 'artist' as though there were a mind-independent category I were citing.
