personalities

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You know what I find fascinating?

Two English classes, consisting of friends, balanced in intellectual approach and creativity, both enthusiastic about a subject, nonetheless manage to have such completely different experiences when conversing about that subject!

Case in point:

Period 2 today, a wild and wacky ride through the crazed and barely controlled chaos that was our "what is art?" conversation (part two): insightful, insane, bewildering, overlapping, random, frustrating, argumentative, opinionated, and brilliant, dominated by the question of whether "art" as self-defined by the madmen who murder or commit other criminal acts and call these art belongs within our ever-expanding (or never-limiting) categorization;

vs.

Period 5 today, a much more calm and reasoned conversation on the same subject that began with the same premise (that there must be a definition for the word "art" because not to have one essentially makes the very word meaningless), but no less passionate, no less focused, no less full of opinion for the fact that it was not as wild and free-form as 2nd Period's conversation was. This time the conversation was dominated by the notion that, as Colin expressed it, there must be a difference between what can be art and what we perceive to be art. (That, he said, is the difference between the pile of candy on the street and the one in the museum.) Take away murder and rape and killing animals for fun and profit and the discussion gets a bit less emotional, I guess.

One thing I will say for both classes: you guys so rock!

Tomorrow is Halloween. I have a costume that scares the crap out of me. It's cheesy as heck, but it is scary as heck too. One hint: the category is politics.

(Duh.)




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--kt