Re: Ask glenn?

[Glenn Gould <glenngould@beethoven.com>]

Title: Re: Ask glenn?

Dear Paige,

Superbly, astonishingly, amazingly, non-directional reasoning howerever you did not have a question that you would ask Mr. Gould? And a suspected answer?


On 9/4/01 8:21 PM, "Paige Poe" <Viviandarkbloom3@AOL.COM> wrote:

> I don't seem to recall Gould ever saying anything that seemed remotely 
> "objectivist," or else I would have banished him from my record collection 
> altogether. Of course I don't get into an artists' philosophy when 
> considering their music, usually--one half of the Minutemen was libertarian 
> and so are one-half of their lyrics, but I still think they're amazing (the 
> other half--Mike Watt--was socialist and more agreeable to my personal 
> views). But with Gould it is definitely an important issue, as I not only 
> enjoy his music but also his theories and writings. Didn't it say somewhere 
> in that Ostwald biography that Gould said he was a socialist? That, to me, 
> makes more sense in terms of his moral and aesthetic views (see: "Glenn Gould 
> interviews Glenn Gould about Glenn Gould"). 
>
> Am I the only one here who thinks that Rand's so-called theories--resulting 
> in long, terrible pseudo-philosophical romance novels--are drivel? 
>
> paige.