From: Grant Callaghan (grantc4@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue 18 Mar 2003 - 14:39:47 GMT
And each and every performance is just the same- a unique solution to the
problem of what step to take, or word to use, or turn to take, or smile, or
frown, or dance, or....
But every step is different, every step new, and, in the event such step is
observed and can be attempted, as performance in a similar landscape, it
will be culturally useful, as culture demands performer and observer and
action from both to continue, and, culture is a continuing and modifying
condition of the human creature. We say it is evolving only because it is
changing in darwinian fashion, not because it's merely 'different' from one
place to another, although that's a clue.
- Wade
I see we also differ on the use of the word "new." To me something is new
the first time you encounter it. You seem to be driving around in a new car
every time you get into yours and driving on a new road every time you
travel from home to the office. A step you've practiced a thousand times is
a new step each time. That sort of ignores the categorization of things, to
my mind. You don't seem to divide the world up into categories of things
previously done or encountered as "old" verses things encountered or done
for the first time as "new," while I do. That would seem to make everything
you see or do "new."
Grant
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