Subject: Re: baidarka R: stability/performance vs. flexibility
From: wolfgang brinck (nativewater@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Dec 29 2000 - 15:28:12 EST
--- Stefano Moretti <stmoretti@tin.it> wrote:
> The french have a very basic approach to
> boatbuilding: "what is it meant
> for, what the programme".
> Boats are the evaluated against this designer
> statement. Does the boat fill
> the purposes ? How much so ? Does it go beyond that
> goal, and how?
>
> I find this attitude pretty sound and useful. more
> than comparisons that
> are not related to any specific goal.
>
William Burroughs, the writer once said pretty much
the same thing about what literary reviews should do:
What was the author trying to accomplish and how well
did he/she do at achieving that goal. Anything else is
irrelevant.
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