Miata Mailing List: July 1998, Message #2

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And yet, the list amazes me with the variety of topics that end up 
being discussed and the quality of the discussions - can you imagine 
this topic on any other auto-related list?  (Even if it is a repeat!)

Keep it up, folks!

Regards,
Gordon Choate
Calgary, Alberta
96 BRG/tan

On Tuesday, June 30, 1998 12:49 PM, Kevin Morrison 
[SMTP:kevin@sunriders.com] wrote:
> Well, this proves that there are no more new subjects for us to
> cover.  It's
> been a while, but we've had the "objective definition of beauty"
> discussion
> before.  I've enjoyed it though!
>
> Kevin and Spider, who is objectively beautiful.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lanny Chambers <lanny@derived.com>
>
>
> >On 6/30/98 09:25, Alessandro Di Sciascio adisciascio@dialisdn.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >>As I said, I don't know what makes a car, person, artform more or
> >>less
> >>appealing to me, but I've found that save some notable and some
> >>not so
> >>notable exceptions, my taste preferences have often been met with
> >>agreement from other people, which leads me to believe there is
> >>some
> >>sort of tacit agreement on the matter.
> >
> >There usually is, WITHIN A GIVEN CULTURE. Taste is a function of
> >culture,
> >and one extrapolates it across cultural boundaries at one's peril.
> >Ever
> >see the film "Mondo Cane?" it was largely concerned with the
> >contrasts in
> >tastes across cultures.
> >
> >As one trained as an anthropologist, I would hesitate to infer the
> >universality of even the Greeks' Golden Mean.
> >
> >---
> >Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA
> >'94C
> >
> >Got Red?
> >
> >
> >
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