Klarinet Archive - Posting 000927.txt from 1995/10

From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Neil Leupold zings me - ugh!!
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 10:29:48 -0400

Yes Dan, once again you've hit the nail on the head. Of COURSE that's why I
said that...

Neil

On Wed, 25 Oct 1995, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> Neil ends a note to someone on a subject to which I have not added
> a single word and says, "But with Dan Leeson around you are sure to
> get a jab."
>
> No offense taken. In fact I took it as a compliment.
>
> Neil, have you ever seen the opera Falstaff (Verdi) or the Shakespeare
> play on which it is based, The Merry Wives of Windsor? In it, everyone
> beats up on Falstaff at the end of the opera, but he zonks them all
> by saying something like, "What kind of a life would you be having were
> it not for me? I make the sparks. I make everything happen."
>
> I am not suggesting that the parallel is exact, but this would be a far
> more prosaic and dull list if I were not forcing everyone, including
> youself, to take a new look at some very old issues. Makes you somewhat
> uncomfortable, yes?
>
> In effect:
>
> Ogni sorta di gente dozzinale
> Mi beffa e se ne gloria;
> Pur, senza me, costor con tanta boria
> Non avbrebbero un bricciolo di sale.
> Son io che vi fa scaltri
> L'arguzia mia crea l'arguzia degli altri.
>
> (Falstaff, Act III, Scene II)
>
> [All kinds of common folk
> Jeer at me now, and are proud of it.
> But without me, their arrogance
> Would be flat and flavorless.
> It is I who season it for you -
> My cleverness creates the cleverness of others.]
>
>
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> Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> (leeson@-----.edu)
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