[Dixielandjazz] One person and art

[Nancy Giffin]

From: Dan Augustine <ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu>
>   Fellow artificers--
>   What do you think about the following statement:
>   Only one person can create art.

>From the Latin, "inspiration" means "in spirit."
This greatly complicates the counting process.

>   That (in part) is live music and jazz.  Pity that it dies as it
>   lives, mortality less than a firefly, existing only in the present
>   (like mathematics).

Ah, but the greatest pieces play over and over in our minds.
A different form, but "existing" nonetheless.
(The human brain doesn't know the difference between what it remembers
and what it's actually hearing -- the neural activity is the same.)