Mimi wrote: >The 'we' are a few of the members who post messages. There are many >more just reading who do not post messages. There is no telling what >THEY think, unless they come out of hiding and contribute. I am one of those who just reads (and feels that he is all the more better for it) and does not contribute (at least usually- I did post one or two slight enquiries). The reason for this post is just to say that my behaviour (if one can call it that), is not prompted by a need for "hiding"... The reason I'm articulating this is that, I think it may have to something to do with (post)romantic aestethics which values expression as the supreme value... Whereas I tend to think that one says (ie. expresses) something, when one believes that it is worth saying. I am not denying that the (post)romantic asthetics of expression has had (and continues to have) a liberating effect... to give a personal example... For some time I have been meaning to ask a question concerning "the meaning of D-Minor" to the list and have not been able to do so, because I haven't yet found a way to formulate the question in a way that is i) acceptable to me, ii)is acceptable to the stardards that I attribute to the list. Looked at from a purely expressionistic view of aesthetics this is no doubt a shame; but on the other hand, I enjoy my self(?)-imposed restraint. regards, iskender