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[TCASHWIGG at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/13/04 7:05:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
bbiffle at brgcc.com writes:

> Lots of good thought has been provoked by iconoclasts like Cage through the
> years.   
> 

That is quite possible Bill, but then one is assuming that many folks 
actually know what an iconoclast is, Heck in America alone there is a great vast 
audience that can't even spell it much less understand what it is or why it needs 
to exist at all.

Sometimes fellows like John Cage actually think deeper than the vast majority 
of  mankind can dig. :)   Which leads some of them to wonder WHY ?  What does 
it do for me or mankind at large ?   Sort of like funding some commission to 
study why children fall off of tricycles for a million dollars of taxpayers 
money, and they come back a year later and say because they are clumsy.   
Brilliant beyond words.   Some folks are indeed educated beyond their intelligence 
me thinks, and we keep funding them to get even more intelligent.

I am looking for a Grant to allow me to contemplate "Why is a Shoe called a 
Shoe?"


Kinda like the old saying  "There oughta be a LAW !  there probably is, just 
nobody can find it anymore because there  are so many laws to look through to 
find it, so it's easier to just make a new one and get paid for it. 

Off the record Bill, did you know there is law on the books in Walnut Creek, 
Ca.  that prohibits anyone from kissing anyone else in the armpit in public?   
Whew ! I guess at one point in time that was a big enough problem that they 
needed to pass a law against it. :))

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins

Musical content:  "Teach Me Tonight"  :+)