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Another note (of help, I hope) as you get to work on the collaborative projects we've asked you to produce over the next few weeks...a NYTimes Magazine interview with Lewis Hyde, this weekend, called What is Art For? Turns out Hyde has been working, the past ten years, on re-writing the intellectual history of this country, from one of isolated geniuses to one of a "cultural commons," in which we can all participate. Lotsa great quotes in the article, but here's my favorite:

“It takes a capacious mind to play host to…others and to find new ways to combine what they have to offer....a mind willing to be taught, willing to be inhabited, willing to labor in the cultural commons.”