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To: Ish who wrote (33817)	4/5/1999 7:52:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

In retrospect, do you wish you hadn't paid cash for your house? I am not suggesting that you take out a second mortgage and invest in internuts, although up to now if you did that, you'd have done well. I thought your wife had a job . . . .

To: Ish who wrote (33817)	4/5/1999 8:00:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Perhaps one can do both? One can eat the arts in the sense that marginal people deal in art - antique and otherwise, by becoming middle men for the vast pool of stuff that comes floating out of American homes. At flea markets all across the country I have met people who could never exist in 9-5 jobs laboring away at redistributing beautiful and not so beautiful stuff. Then there are the street artists who make and sell their own stuff. They "eat" art. I don't think they live in expensive real estate but most of them don't want to- which is why they do what they do. As for the rest of us, even the busiest person can keep a book by the toilet to read casually. OR for those who watch television (perhaps you do not, I don't know) rent some great art movie or critically acclaimed film- fast art that won't cost an arm and a leg and won't take much time. I HIGHLY recommend Henry Fool. I found that movie to be fantastic on many levels. I am going to add it to my video library. The last video I added (aside from the ones for my children, ugh The Rugrats Movie) was Zero Effect which is marvelous. I see almost every movie that comes out that sounds good- and even some that don't sound good because I get them free as Blockbuster has that guarantee if it isn't in. you get it free (for their featured movies). That is how I saw What Dreams May come, uck, what swill.

To: Ish who wrote (33817)	4/5/1999 8:16:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Ahh- but that's just not true, ISh- you have a great appreciation for words and ideas and beauty. We see it all the time in what you write and your appreciation of others' writings. I would guess that they enrich your life immeasurably. I don't think that we all appreciate every form of art. Ballet doesn't move me as opera does, and I don't understand much about art. BUt I know that they are essential to others. Trying to keep your home doesn't erase your need or your ability to value those other things, but I think it can overwhelm the other areas of existence for a time. Happens to us all at different points. When my children were ill or when I thought I had a brain tumor, I certainly had no emotional energy left for other things. THat's not denying its importance. That's just mustering your resources for the battle. That's what I meant by regressing though. I see the loss of appreciation for art and literature and the caring professions in a society as steps backward for us. That the schools are forced to kill these programs first in order to stay within budgets is a sad reality. And that's what I mean, not that food isn't more important on the survival scale, but that we are sliding back when we have to give up those things of the spirit.