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From: Eric S. R. <es...@th...> - 2000-03-15 14:58:48
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Note for Ruby. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a> It is the assumption of this book that a work of art is a gift, not a commodity. Or, to state the modern case with more precision, that works of art exist simultaneously in two "economies," a market economy and a gift economy. Only one of these is essential, however: a work of art can survive without the market, but where there is no gift there is no art. -- Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property |