On Dec 11, 2013, at 1:59 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> In a message dated 12/11/13 4:12:31 PM, [email protected] writes:
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>> I have experience similar feelings in sport watching, and i many
>> other situations, even perhaps elections that hang on to the last count.
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> True enough, Mando. You're right to cite political events that often unfold
> in such a way as to occasion a feeling that I'm inclined say involves at
> least some aspect of "aesthetic".
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> Other real life events also come close enough to prompt "artists" to go to
> work. Inevitably when an artist has at the material, they change the facts .
> CHARIOTS OF FIRE won four Oscars (music, best movie, best screenplay, best
> costume design). I enjoyed it immensely, but because I'm a track and field
> buff, I was jarred by the amount of sheer invention in the story. Though the
> philosopher C.J. Ducasse, a celebrated philosopher of aesthetics seventy
> five years ago, in effect rejected "realistic" "drama" as "art", saying the
> feeling it occasions is not aesthetic but "vicarious".
