[Wonderful Labs] OSCAR WILDE'S WONDER

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Dear Mister Wonderful,

	Are the arts necessary?  Music?  Why do people spend so much time and
money on them if they are not?

Your Friend,
Art
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Dear R. Daneel,

	You know, Oscar Wilde was patting his hair back into place and wiping
his mouth when I first heard him say, "We can forgive a man for making a
useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for
making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.  All art is
quite useless."

	"So is a pie eating contest," I said.  "Get to working on my berries, varlet."

	Once again, your "necessity" query has left too many variables open. 
Art and Music are unnecessary for survival, yet virtually required for
"Chicago" to win any Oscars.

	Art is full of surprises. And Truth.  Listen: right now, I'm watching
Wong Karp-Wai's "In the Mood for Love" while eating Tabasco cheese
popcorn and drinking Southern comfort.  Do you think I could bear *any*
elements of that if I were aiding the American Association of Auction
Pinochle Strategists?  No.  Art is necessary to maintain the fiction
that is my existence.
	
	If people only bought what was necessary, the economy would crash so
hard you'd have to take shelter in Dana Delaney's bra.  You could
probably survive the eventual bitter struggles by exercising your Second
Amendment Right to Eat Those Who Oppose You.

	
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	"Deeper quantum theory, meanwhile, has
	implied that our material universe is
	but the secondary product of a primal
	information - In the beginning was the
	Word."

		-Alan Moore, 
		"Snakes and Ladders,
		1: The Gate of Tears"
	being a presentation of The
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	Theatre of Marvels, 1999
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