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HIP_REDUCTION

                                                          September 5, 2005


On one occasion, Sun Ra is reported
to have had the Arkestra listen to
some recent pop records:
   
  "This is some really    
   hokey shit, Sonny"    
                    
  "This hokey shit
   is someone's
   hopes and dreams.
   Don't be so hip!"


One of the reviews of "The Immortal Class"
complains about some of the anecdotes being       That made me    
like Boy's Life fiction...                        think that maybe
                                                  I should look up
                                                  some old copies 
                                                  of Boys Life.   
   In "Don Quixote", I notice that
   when Cervantes stops trying to be
   all superior to the Romantic and
   writes something conventionally       QUIXAND
   romantic -- i.e. a boy-meets-girl
   story -- the book gets much more
   readable.

                                                    ANNA_KARENINA
          Similarly, the adulterous adventures
          of Anna Karenina are a total yawner,
          but Levin-and-Kitty works in spite
          of the absence of the conflict which
          is supposed to be necessary for fiction.

                                    
                                 Note, "The Thin Man" movies:
                                 remarkable for being a rare 
                                 example of a husband and    
                                 wife team that actually     
                                 likes each other.           
                                 
  Maybe we keep                        
  missing the                               
  obvious...       
                 
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