Arts & Humanities: need a 3rd super-ordinate term

Dear Graham,

It took me a while to get on this members only club;
I fumbled around with your links and google andthe
http address and am in-for-the-moment.

I book-marked, but still: it will probably ask for
id next time I try.

I remember MC Richards giving a talk outside
what is now the print shop, on late spring evening
during a Black Mountain Retrospective we held.

art art art art art art art art
art art art art art art art art

She repeated the word for a long long time and
said she hoped the repetition would some how
scour IT of it's hoity-toity humanist connotations.

The difference between ARTS and HUMANITIES?

I say: turn them way way way way up so that
the distinct values of each don't contaminate each
other--and don't let their view of each other (if
I can personify, deify even--Argyle Art and
Hurry Harry Humanities) reduce the strangeness
on both teams.

(Fred Flatland's version of Sally Sphere, for example:
imagine how collapsed--talking in circles as if he
knew what sphere was; and of course Sally can't do
justice to Fred either: pumping him up like a balloon.)

THEN (as if this were chrono-logical) having maybe
come to some shared terms of how distinct and discrete
each is:

(Fine Arts on the one hand;
Humanities on the other hand)

we might begin to see the nature of the ratios and
relationships that emerge for us right here now
in this place: our local food for thought.

Otherwise: arts&humanities--it's all ONE, yes?
what's the big deal?

COURSES is what they are. Aims & objectives &
assessment all around. Mohammed Ali & Howard
Cosel & why can't theyJust Get Along?


Yrs in Consumer Mode,

Sam