Re: GG Taboos

[Mary Jo Watts <mwatts@rci.rutgers.edu>]

Well,

As listowner, I've only asked people to switch topics thrice I can think
of since 1995.  Usually I intervene when people get snippy with one
another which is too UN-GG like for me.  He was a man of many interests
and we are a group of people with many interests so I don't tend to police
topics very often.  I do ask if it *seems* very off topic that people put
GG: OT in their headers or they make some comical bends to apply it to GG
in some way. (Bradley and Bob are especially good at this!) THAT's
actually quite fun-- a very Gouldian game.

I have no problem with people discussing GG's biography.  I think Kate is
referring to folks who don't like to discuss the personal life of artists,
not a specific taboo on the list.  If people don't want to read posts
about the personal life of Gould, they should simply delete the thread.
That's why I ask that headers be accurate. (An example would be the topic
of the letter to Dell in the collected letters-- Who is the woman GG is in
love with?  I have my own theories but some people do NOT like the topic.
However-- it's not taboo for discussion on the list.)


Regards,
Mary Jo Watts
listowner, f_minor
mwatts@rci.rutgers.edu




On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, James Whiskeychan wrote:

>
> Kate Clunies-Ross wrote:
>
> >I am fully aware that many people think for example that we should only
> concern ourselves with Gould'smusic and other work, not the minutia  of his
> life and personality.<
>
>
> Please help  me out.  I am a new member.  This is the second veiled reference I have read about things we should not talk about on this list.  The F_ minor Homepage calls this list "A mailing list devoted to the discussion of Glenn Gould."  Why doesn't this include his life and personality?  Glenn Gould was a very interesting lad.  His  life style choices affected his work.  An artist's personality goes hand and hand with his work.  How can you separate one from the other?  Should you?
> What subjects are off limits?
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