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BOUNDARIES


      "And even when 
      the question finds the answer,
      Then even then, 
      There's something like a dancer..."
           
      "Day and Night"
         by Jim Carrol                    
                                          
                                          
      The rational does not exist on          I think I first 
      it's own.  You can't proceed            came across this 
      without guesses, intuition,             idea in _Zen & the 
      without art?                            Art of Motorcycle    A book I 
                        Science               Maintenance_.        first 
 The Apollonian         connected to                               heard read
 and the Dionysian,     esthetics.                                 on WBAI, 
 a dialect ripe for                                                then read 
 synthesis?                                                        myself a 
               TRAGEDY                                             few times. 
I thought                            
that "cyber-                                                     Very well  
punk" might                                                      written, 
become such                                                      lots of 
a synthesis.                                                     interesting 
                                                                 stuff in it, 
"I have hopes                                                    though it's 
that it can be                                                   ultimate 
a place to take                                                  conclusion 
new stances across                                               seemed weak.
some of the old                                                  Those silly
boundaries --                               What do you do       diagrams.
passion and       PUNK                      with the (probably   A hierarchy 
intellect;                                  quite true)          with quality
freedom and                                 acusation that       on top.  
organization."                              there is no such     What do you 
   -- Me, in REM:4                          thing as             _do_ with it?
      dated July '86.                       objectivity, 
                                            that on some 
It mostly hasn't                            level you always          
worked out that                             see what you look   I.e., you see
way, though Bruce                           for rather than     with a sense
Sterling gets                               "what's actually    of values, 
close on occasion.                          there"?             of quality...
                                                                             
Like the short                              Even when I say that             
"The Beautiful                              this accusation is               
and the Sublime",                           "quite true", I'm                
where he plays                              contradicting it,                
role reversal                               Can you objectively              
games with                                  know that subjectivity           
scientists and                              rules?             
artists.                                              OBJECT   
                                                               
                                                               
        
        
                                                               
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