Re: "You Want Alchemy"

[pptjc@brighton.ac.uk (Peter Chow <pptjc@uk.ac.bton.vaxk>)]

In article <1994Jul26.134931.12778@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tree of Schnopia) writes:
>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
>
Peter Chow from Brighton (UK) continues:

I look forward to hearing your _considered_ opinions. :-)