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Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock<\/font><\/h6>\n

<\/strong><\/font>Thursday 9 June 2004.<\/font><\/strong><\/font> A terrific quote I’ve recently found and logged in my Commonplace Book (filed on the home and work computers) is: “Art is not art if only 14 people know about it,” said by Joni Mitchell,<\/em> quoted by Jacquelyn Mitchard. (Mitchard is a former syndicated, family style, feature newspaper columnist, a fact no longer noted on the popular novelist’s dust jackets. (I’d gladly read her, or listen to one of her recorded books, if she ‘fessed up.))<\/font><\/p>\n

That perhaps defines a goal of Brick, which otherwise serves as an outlet: 15 hits. Fifteen readers a day or a month, I don’t care. But 15 is sufficient for the energy expended. Though it’s obvious Joni was pulling a number from her imagination. Why not “22”? “42”? A minyan of 10?<\/font><\/p>\n

Fifteen, it is. -30- <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Thursday 9 June 2004. A terrific quote I’ve recently found and logged in my Commonplace Book (filed on the home and work computers) is: “Art is not art if only 14 people know about it,” said by Joni Mitchell, quoted by Jacquelyn Mitchard. 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