In a message dated 6/7/2002 4:20:04 AM Central Daylight Time,
info@furtherfield.org writes:


> Hello Eryk,
>
> I came to the same assumption at the end of my writing… Hence my
> confusion.
>
> marc
>


I don't know if this helps or will help, but in the last couple of days I got
the marvelous idea that we would all possibly get a big glass of juice
(literally) if we started to call art a BEHAVIOR.

Now my modus operandi (dulce et decorum est pro patria mori) is to always
check my fatty American Heritage dickwickarea when I try to use a word
different than I did before.

In addition to the salty words "behest", "behindhand", "Belial", and
"belfry", I find "behavior", which is "1. The manner in which one behaves;
deportment; demeanor. 2. The actions or reactions of persons or things under
specified circumstances." In the usage add-on, which distinguishes
"behavior" from "conduct" and "deportment," they say "These all pertain to
one's actions considered as a means of evaluation by others. Behavior
applies to actions on specific occasions [let's say genius 2000 again here
for repetitive actions such as picking berries or busting open mussels
increase serotonin as proven by science] involving essentially external and
sometimes superficial relationships."

Well enough diagonals; to get the derivation I must go to "behave" which
comes from "[Middle English behaven, to hold oneself in a certain way: be-,
thoroughly + haven, to HAVE]" (all typography theirs not mine).

"Behavior" is a good word for art because it pertains (pertains) to both
people and thngs, genius and 2000, cognition and history.

It's a good word I think. I can even start saying "art-behavior"
("kunstverhalten" in German, "comportement d'art" in French, and
"comportamiento del arte" in Espanol).

Fascinating shit I think you'll agree.

Max Herman
genius2000.net

"Read your dictionary man, and mind your purse" –George Gordon Max Byron

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