Re: Let The Line, The Cross and The Curve be analyzed to life!

[chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams)]

IED writes:
>     The following may read like an angry attack of Vickie's recent posting
>about "The Line, The Cross and The Curve".  IED apologizes in advance for the
>appearance of hostility.  He assures everyone that his hot humor is not
>directed at any person, but rather at an attitude which he perceives as
>common among a large (and growing) number of people both in rec.music.gaffa
>and in the world at large.  Ordinarily IED would say nothing about trends in
>society, but when those trends threaten to affect the reception of the work
>of Kate Bush, he has no choice but to voice a  protest, however feeble or
>disorganized it may be, however bad-tempered it may sound.
>     With all due respect,  then, IED disputes Vickie's claim that this movie
>is "full of flaws".  He also questions her concluding admonition that we "not
>analyze [the movie] to death".
>    "The Line, The Cross and The Curve" is not in the least error-ridden;  as
>for the danger of over-interpreting the movie's subtleties, well, let it
>merely be said that the analyses that have reached this forum to date
>scarcely raise such a danger.  
>     IED is impatient with such a know-nothing, facilely populist attitude
>toward Kate Bush's art, an attitude which after an incubation over many years
>threatens to strangle the flow of earnest Kate Bushological discourse both in
>rec.music.gaffa and in Homeground.  It is a supercilious, patronizing
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    CHRIS is happy to see this re-emergence of the IED of old, as it
puts CHRIS' posting style back into it's original context.


                          Chris Williams of
                             Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago
                               chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (his)
                                 vickie@njin.rutgers.edu      (hers)