Posted
2:34 PM
by Gene
Terry "Unpronounceable" Teachout, who's capable of very good judgments and VERY BAD ONES, posted
this on his blog:
The point is that I accept the existence of hierarchies of quality without feeling oppressed by them. I have plenty of room in my life for F. Scott Fitzgerald and Raymond Chandler, for Aaron Copland and Louis Armstrong, for George Balanchine and Fred Astaire, and I love them all without confusing their relative merits, much less jumping to the conclusion that all merits are relative.
DITTO.