>I don't think I used the word "importance" in my previous post. I >didn't mean to imply that Townsend was not important or somehow >inferior to Kosciusko, since I don't know enough geography to know >what is and what isn't important. However, when someone who is >considered more or less of an expert (or as much of an expert as any >qb player can be) on the subject draws a blank on it, it gives me >pause. In any case, second highest mountains are rarely asked about >precisely for the reason that they are far, far less well known than >the highest mountain in a given range. I'm interested in how these things make it into the CB lexicon of answers. I've always found it interesting which books are asked about, and which pieces of music, etc. I recall wanting to write a good art history bonus, not name-these-paintings/artists, but art historians. Essentially Ruskin was the only one deemed question worthy by the more knowledgeable, which is silly, becauser people like Vasari, or Clement Greenberg are infinitely more important in the field, and certain contemporary names should be familiar to any art historian, such as Linda Nochlin or Michael Baxandall. Could be that none of the people I asked were art historians, but I feel like I should make efforts to expand the field sometimes. -Dan Blim =) _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
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