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It's probably no surprise to hear that I agree with roachboy on this subject. The designation of the definition 'art' is the purview solely of the 'artist.' Whether it gives anything to the spectator is irrelevant.
You are a writer, Hal, and I'm pretty sure you have an ego. Who gets to define what you do as 'writing'?
I will agree that the concept of art is subjective only to the extent that most anything we label with words is subjective.
And put me down as an eccentric, brain-fried hippie, because I believe the randomness of nature and happenstance can be art.
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