Stephen Shore: By 1971, just about all media were in color: TV, movies, magazines, snapshots.
Robert Christgau: People did keep drifting in—and nobody left. And that was probably in December of 1980.
Shore: I felt our relationship changed after that.
Christgau: But it’s just an extra emotional connection. [Laughs]
Shore: All four valleys are also basically parallel, the rivers flowing south to north.
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Christgau: It was a great, great practical joke.
Shore: There’s the sense of something taking over. Playing with an idea. Asking questions.
Christgau: Those are five I’m really proud of.
Shore: The second aspect is cognitive. The third aspect is metacognitive.
Christgau: That’s important. People remember that as something of a disgrace, but I remember it as a triumph.
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Shore: I can. I do.
Christgau: Ancient Egypt.
Shore: It wouldn’t have made sense for me to work in the middle of a desert.
Christgau: Not really. Is that Harry Weinger and Alan Leeds?
Shore: This question was of great importance to me.