Klarinet Archive - Posting 000320.txt from 1997/01

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Paprocki and the curse of Leeson!!!
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 17:17:37 -0500

Dan describes how I attacked him the first time he suggested doing
a piece on the other-than-requested clarinet. But it was not
a curse I levied on him. It was guilt!!!

My mother, may she rest in peace, was the east coast distributor
for guilt. She was a master at it and once told me that if I
were a better boy the dinosaurs would not have died.

Since that time I have discovered that guilt is far better to use
to get people to do what you want than curses. There are ways
to get rid of curses. You need eye of newt and a few other
strange things but you can get them and negate the curse.

Guilt you cannot get rid of. It slowly crushes you but its
effects are permanent unless you pay me to take the guilt away.
I never take it away from people who use the wrong clarinet.

Are you aware that Dan was much taller before I gave him wrong-clarinet
guilt than he is now? And his sound is starting to shrivel up. And
he is beginning to look like a very old medjool date, wrinkled,
injured, damaged, etc. He drools a lot and refuses to take part
in any music composed after Jan. 7, 1726 which is why he is not
working much.

Next person, please.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
(leeson@-----.edu)
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