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Cheers * Hmmmh... Not sure whether I agree with the thrust of Caldwell's sentiment, mate. Similarly, unsure whether it's a manifesto for an inferiority complex or a superiority complex. Being likened to/lumped in with children hints at the former (inferiority), in one sense. To generalise - since this is an email and not an essay: the notion of childish/innocent genius apart, kids are unformed adults; they are less sophisticated, cruder. If that creates happiness in them, it's on the basis of a kind of ignorance, and is thereby merely temporary. The idea that so-called/supposed non-creative adult people are less happy than creative ones, hints at the latter (superiority); being amplified along the way by being dubbed a 'minority'. This seems somewhat distasteful to me. Elitism doesn't usually bother me in and of itself, you understand! I believe in horses for courses, and have no trouble thinking we are all different, with differing capabilities. Personal worth shouldn't be calculated in terms of or diminished by these differentials, however. All people are worth the same. More basically, though, Caldwell's reductive prose seems not to adequately describe/account for the truth as I at least see it. Forgive the pithiness, but I prefer Jerry Sadowitz's imperative that 'either every subject is up for comedy or none is'. The reductions of poetry don't always make for great explanation. Thanks for the stimulation. Having a lovely time here. Hope you are too. Good luck with CR. * keeps me informed. Sending a package of my slender artworking to him soon. Got gigs coming up - next week and in June. Busy, also, making films; very much liking that medium. That, plus making noises on the laptop, more or less keeps me out of trouble. Here www.myspace.com/esoterian24skidoo and here http://murmurists.blogspot.com can be found the fruits of my womb. Cheers, Anthony----- Original Message ----- From: *************To: <a.donovan7@ntlworld.com>Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 8:40 PM Subject: Quote > The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority. > > > Jean Caldwell> > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message.> Checked by AVG Free Edition.> Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.6.0/342 - Release Date: 17/05/2006