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Geoffrey Gaskell <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:12:04 +1200
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Regarding one of the most infuriating and infamous of ilks, David Runnion
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Why, oh why, do you put words in the mouths of ilks? There's nothing
>at all "wrong" with you if you don't enjoy this kind of music.  It's
>perfectly normal!  That's why there are so few people that like it, and
>so few composers, really, that write it.  What's wrong is insisting so
>vehemently that others shouldn't like it or make it, and that it somehow
>isn't art.  That's what's wrong.

Indeed so, but perhaps there is a "missing link" between Art, Truth &
Soccer Hooliganism?

Geoffrey Gaskell

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