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> But nothing is ever totally original; or everything is original, depending upon how you're looking at it.
So the old is rendered 'new' when set in a different context and the new 'old' when seen subjectively in the same manner as previously?
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Hi Faldage, I almost expected some reaction like that: You obviously applied your square categorical grid to my somewhat foreshortened comparison  . My thesis is simply that new nonsense cannot be distinguished from old nonsense because nonsense it timeless and ahistorical  .
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So the old is rendered 'new' when set in a different context and the new 'old' when seen subjectively in the same manner as previously?I'm probably stretching the point. Most unlike me.  But... 1. There are no new ingredients or techniques. 2. Even the same basic recipe never comes out exactly the same on two occasions. In fact it's a highly skilled task to get effective mass-production. We should really have a term for the tendency of threads to veer in a food-related direction. 
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We should really have a term for the tendency of threads to veer in a food-related direction.
Opsotropy.
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OpsotropyWouldn't that be a tendency to veer in an osteopathy-related direction? http://www.opso.com/
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re;We should really have a term for the tendency of threads to veer in a food-related direction.
how can that be happening? i haven't posted in this thread in days!
but as cole porter said, "everything old is new again"
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But nothing is ever totally original; or everything is original, depending upon how you're looking at it. ~ fish
Too true Soul-bro', therefore all categorizations are arbitrary no matter how you look at it. Therefore...
Words have no meaning. Words only have function.
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ah, Words have no meaning.
you cause me to think of these words, attributed to Ahab, in the book Ahab's Wife (by Seta Jener Naslund)
"Beware of the treachery of words, Mrs. Sparrow. They mean one thing to one person and the opposite to another. They are like all conventional land-born habits. Words seem to be well-woven baskets ready to hold your meaning, but they betray you with rotted corners, and spintered stays."
even with out your brackets, that would have jump out and grabbed me, nancy! i am reading the book again, for the first time, i dove in and downed in it, now, i savor each word!
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therefore all categorizations are arbitrary no matter how you look at itNot sure that necessarily follows, Mr M... But then, maybe that just proves your point. Certainly words in themselves are meaningless and functionless. Like money. 
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