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On 06/21/01 14:01, Lawrence DeBivort said this-
>Could Rousseau's rosy portrayal of nature help provide a background meme for
>Mary Shelley?
It provided a background meme for the copy I have of Dennett's "Darwin's
Dangerous Idea".
Rousseau (indeed, almost all and any 'primitive' artist) provide very
interesting memes, mostly in that non-arrogant way I appreciate,
although, admittedly, psychosis may have replaced arrogance in not a few
cases. There is a museum in Baltimore, MD (close to you, Lawrence),
called the American Visionary Art Museum, which is a gallery of
contemporary and recent primitives. I've been there twice, and recommend
it to anyone traveling in that direction. (Although the last time I was
in Baltimore, I had to forego my visit to the AVAM and head uptown to the
library to attend a reading given by Samuel R. Delany, one of my favorite
science-fiction authors, who was serendipitously in town.... So, I could
have been there three times, since I've been to Baltimore three times.)
- Wade
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