Re: [CR]Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel

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Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 19:45:23 -0800
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel
References: <20060319002743.55752.qmail@web52515.mail.yahoo.com>


Don Wilson wrote:
>
> (snip) You can't
> do anything functional with this composition, or
> imagine doing anything functional with this
> composition, except consider it; and yet its comprised
> of two very functional things. It is a merger of two
> useful things so that there can be no practical
> function in either except experiencing the aesthetics
> of there conjoined form.(snip)

It serves no practical function other than to true bicycle wheels that is.

Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California +------------------------+ | "FIXED GEAR IST DADA" | | --James Rogers | +------------------------+

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