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[malaikhanh]

One thing I like about Camille Paglia, Slavoj Zizek, Chuck Klosterman, and David Foster Wallace is that they don't distinguish between high and low culture. (To a large extent I also think of Barb this way, since her aesthetic judgments are very often unconventional.) What's to like in low-brow? Well, one answer is simply that there is something

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[nancyd007]

Interesting too is the construction of low-brow versus high-brow. Did you know, for instance, that Shakespeare was incredibly low-brow in 19th century America? His plays and parodies of them once played side by side vaudeville and minstrel acts in an evening's entertainment to audiences of mixed class.

Tally ho!

[ext_218453]

Andy!

Could I post this on my Facebook because I like it and because you've effectively flattered me? I know that's kind of taking our LJ/Wordpress union to the next (crude, indulgent... low-culture) level but these are the barriers we're trying to break! Maybe? Or is that just me? Or am I just flattering YOUR post so that you allow ME to post it on MY Facebook the way I'VE been enticed by YOUR post half on account of its winning words regarding my person?! This reminds me of that kinda country song that name-checks all those cities, winning over everyone and loving no one in particular. Not to unduly correlate that bad song with your fine post, because you've wisely chosen to focus fully on me!... OK, I'm taking this out of control and into my ego. Never mind.

-Reb!