In a message dated 3/23/2001 7:27:48 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> ".... if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to make a house out
>  of
>  it, does that make it less useful as house-building material?
>
>  Now, could you take this one more step?

And if its not useful as a house-building material then it can only be
considered as authentic compost? But only, of course, after it has lost its
integrity as a fallen tree. And does it matter who owns it? Or what the
owner's intentions were when he/she decided to leave it where it lay? Maybe
the owner intended that it become authentic sculpture created by natural
forces rather than handwork and that loss of integrity over time would be
part of the creative process?

Or maybe the ax handle just broke.

-- MSP