>Lee Rudolph wrote:
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>> Okay. I write, and have little or no information about the relationships
>> my reader (say, you) has to any particular word or phrase I write (except
>> now I know a bit more than nothing about you and "shit"). You read what
>> I write, and have little or no information about the relationships I have
>> to my words. I see little or no possibility of my being able, with any
>> confidence, to "transfer" anything from me to you that depends on our two
>> stores of private relationships. Your reactions are yours.

>
>I wonder how you manage with so little confidence in readerships.
>Messages in bottles...
>

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>"Awaken21" gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> On Jun 23, 7:16 pm, Tang Huyen gmail.com[remove]>
>> wrote:

> What you are talking about is even more obvious in art. Most audiences
> will be left unmoved by a perfectly executed Sonata that has no nuances,
> feelings, or "active aesthetic creation" at play in the performance. I
> have heard this kind of piano playing and no matter how facile the
> pianist is, it leaves one restless, bored and unsatisfied.

>
> Robert Epstein wrote:
>
>

>>What you are talking about is even more obvious in art. Most audiences
>>will be left unmoved by a perfectly executed Sonata that has no nuances,
>>feelings, or "active aesthetic creation" at play in the performance. I
>>have heard this kind of piano playing and no matter how facile the
>>pianist is, it leaves one restless, bored and unsatisfied.

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>
> It is called a polished, accomplished runthrough/walkthrough,
> lacking expression. Solti's Beethoven with CSO sounds like
> that. A glorified Paris Hilton rendition.
>
> Tang Huyen
>
>

>
>
> Robert Epstein wrote:
>

>> What you are talking about is even more obvious in art. Most audiences
>> will be left unmoved by a perfectly executed Sonata that has no
>> nuances,
>> feelings, or "active aesthetic creation" at play in the performance. I
>> have heard this kind of piano playing and no matter how facile the
>> pianist is, it leaves one restless, bored and unsatisfied.

>
> It is called a polished, accomplished runthrough/walkthrough,
> lacking expression. Solti's Beethoven with CSO sounds like
> that. A glorified Paris Hilton rendition.

> What you are talking about is even more obvious in art. Most audiences
> will be left unmoved by a perfectly executed Sonata that has no nuances,
> feelings, or "active aesthetic creation" at play in the performance. I
> have heard this kind of piano playing and no matter how facile the
> pianist is, it leaves one restless, bored and unsatisfied.

> Tang Huyen gmail.com[remove]> writes:
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>

>>Robert Epstein wrote:

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> ...
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>>>To what extent do you believe from your travels that "living teachers"
>>>are still around who can...

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> Robert Epstein wrote:
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>>Tang Huyen:
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>>

>>>Hehe. However it is tragic for people to go coo-coo,
>>>even after (especially after) so many years and
>>>decades devoted to mental culture. These...

> Lee Rudolph:
>

>> Okay. I write, and have little or no information about the relationships
>> my reader (say, you) has to any particular word or phrase I write (except
>> now I know a bit more than...

>
> Lee Rudolph wrote:
>
>

>>Except in a fairly ideal sense, the words a writer writes are not
>>the same words that the reader (thereafter) reads. So it *is* (or
>>should be) surprising that A's words...