FCS wrote:
>
> Are you saying Mark Wallace is a pseudonym used by
> Damian Hirst? Or is there another artist who has found
> controversiality a useful technique to raise his popular
> profile? I've never heard of Mark Wallace outside of
> USENET.
Hardly. I used DH as an example of how being successful and being 'good'
are
not necessarily coincident.
As for MW, I have heard of the name much more outside Usenet than the once
or
twice here. e.g.:
A car dealer in West Lothian
A scientist at Oxford University
A representative of the Freedom Association and ID card activist
A wicket keeper for Glamorgan
A co-author of a book on 'second life' (or 'pervonet' as it is sometimes
called)
.... to name but a few.
> I took it, by "a man who saws cows in half", that you
> meant Damian Hirst, by whom I've never seen so much
> as a limerick.
Why would an artist write limericks?
> Hirst does have a reputation for copying these days
Yes, but we were discussing D. Brown in that context. I would imagine
that many
cows are sawn in half on a daily basis so not exactly original work.
> Obviously if you happen to know that Mark Wallace
> works in a beef slaughterhouse in real life you know
> more than I.
See above. However, there is no reason to suppose that names used on
Usenet are
real. They are as likely to be pseudonyms as they are to be genuine.
There is
no mention of Blue Sow on my pass****t.
> Oh, they decided the criticism would be so swingeing,
> the demand for it so great, and the bandwidth wasted
> so significantly draining that there were a number of
> posting guidelines issued.
>
> I suggest the time has come to review them and also
> to remember that, in practice, very few people do read
> them anyway.
Indeed - people post what they will, and respond as they will. So the
guidelines have no effect on posting habits, revised or otherwise.
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Blue Sow
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