[Wonderful Labs] [Fwd: KUNST WONDERFUL]

[Wonderful Labs]

************** If you wonder who wrote the Book of Love, you're gonna
love who wrote the Book of Wonder... Mister Wonderful here, and whether
it's the eight ball or my schedule, I'm behind it.  Anyway, here's some
ancient stuffer for your stocking...


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: KUNST WONDERFUL
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999


Dear Miss T. R. Wonderful,

	A painter named Whistler once gave a long lecture about how Art is
superior to Nature. He held that the wonders of Nature are as the keys
of a piano, not really notable (so to speak) until an Artist comes along
and makes of them a lovely arrangement. Is this true, or is it merely
another sign of the deep arrogance characteristic of famous painters and
other human-types?

Yours, 
Maude
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Dear And-then-there's-you,

	Speaking as one of the most deeply arrogant characters you are ever
likely to encounter, I would say that Whistler has it right on the money
there.  Nature is, quite frankly, a dump.

	First off, they let anyone in.  No dress code for Nature, no doorman,
no 21-and-over shows.  My gods, you go out in Nature and you could be
overrun by snotty, Pokemon-clutching adolescents in lime-green Hanson
T-shirts at *any moment*!  

	Aside from that, it's just sort of *there*. Like your unemployed cousin
who doesn't bother to pick up the stained nudie magazines from the floor
of his trailer when you visit, Nature expects *you* to make all the
effort.  Nature has no taste!  It has no sense of decor!  No standards! 
The twigs blatantly lie there, all jumbled together and covered in
birdshit!  I know!  I've been to Nature once or twice, and It Is Not Pretty.

	The only trouble with Mister Whistler's lecture is that it was not long *enough*.

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