On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 08:21:18PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> writes: > > > In the US, I could mutilate your work, but I couldn't pass it off as > > yours (that would be misrepresentation, possibly fraud). If you were > > alive, I couldn't distort it to give you a bad reputation: that > > would be libel or slander, depending. (Dead people have no > > right to defend their reputations in the US.) > > I think I've figured out what's really going on with Duchamp. > > The French think Duchamp can "mutilate" the Mona Lisa because he's > French, and Da Vinci is Italian. Hey, wait, I thought only the Americans, British, and Germans were nationalistic chauvinists. /me coughs while people forget the etymology of "chauvinism" -- G. Branden Robinson | You live and learn. Debian GNU/Linux | Or you don't live long. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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