everything on a cd is surely not music

by Lightning Rod

Posted to Utterances on 2004-02-24 13:03:00

Parent message is 608006
and I”m not talking about data storage
or yes, maybe I am
I love Tiger Woods, he’s my ideal athlete.
Something about or by Tiger Woods would interest me
and in that sense it is literature. Literature is something that you are interested in expressed in the written word.

Sure, you can make the distinction between journalism and literature. One is a work of recording reality and the other is an exercise of the imagination. But these two intersect at some strange place.

At what point does ‘sound’ become ‘music’?

“So why do people think I like books just because I like literature?”

Why do people think I like poetry readings just because I’m a poet?