Re: "You Want Alchemy"

[as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tree of Schnopia)]

In <1994Jul26.021148.17095@unix.brighton.ac.uk> pptjc@brighton.ac.uk (Peter Chow <pptjc@uk.ac.bton.vaxk>) writes:

>I happen to like YWA quite a lot but I'm not going to fly off the deep end
>because someone opines that it is "crap". Without a qualifying argument
>to support such a statement it carries little weight. Whenever I talk to
>someone about music or a film or whatever it is not so much whether they liked
> it or not that matters to me but *why* they liked or disliked it. If you
>cannot quantify what elements of a piece of art you are criticising then
>your judgement, one way or the other, counts for little.

Well, actually, if I had meant to offer a "judgement" I would have
quantified it.  As it was, I was offering an opinion.

I *would* quantify my opinion and offer a judgement, but I don't have the
single here in Rochester with me.  If you'd like to know what bothers me
I'll bring it back with me this weekend and listen to it some more.

Drew


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