Klarinet Archive - Posting 000177.txt from 2000/10

From: David Glenn <notestaff@-----.de>
Subj: [kl] Well, you know....
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 20:48:11 -0400

Tony Pay wrote:

> These couple of days have been interesting, really.
>
> Neil Leupold just wrote:
>
> > Now, Tony, if only *you* could learn to do what I just did.
>
> But I wouldn't, would I, given what *you* write?
>
> Anyway, you did that only to make your point.
>
> And Roger Garrett just wrote:
>
> > A last thought - my "extended essay" was the longest I have written in
> > several moons.......and to think it is only 1/4 as long as your
> > average post!
>
> .....and with about a tenth of the content of any of them.
>
> I've come to think that I'm wasting my time writing here. I'm finally
> not deterred from unsubscribing by the irritating fact that the two
> 'gentlemen' above *really* want me to do it.
>
> After all, the people for whom I'm actually writing can be counted on
> two hands. Those people I thank, and I've learned a lot from you.
> People like Lelia, David H and N and G, Mike, Anne, Dan, my friends in
> NZ, and so on. You know who you are.
>
> As for the others, we can count a jumped-up educator, and the people who
> can learn from his instructions: and a Micro$oft lawyer who's more
> valuable than that; plus all the nameless ones, and a few sour-mouthed
> sideliners.
>
> Neil Leupold for example, further wrote:
>
> > You must appeal to people's hearts before you can engage their minds.
> > Being "right" doesn't make you any less of an ass.
>
> Appealing to people's hearts is something you've always done, Neil.
> Actually, I wouldn't know you knew what a heart was, from your posts.
>
> Thank you Mark Charette, anyway, for your generosity and intelligence,
> over these couple of years.
>
> Tony
> --
> _________ Tony Pay
> |ony:-) 79 Southmoor Rd Tony@-----.uk
> | |ay Oxford OX2 6RE GMN family artist: www.gmn.com
> tel/fax 01865 553339
>
> ..... What was the best thing before sliced bread?
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Oh dear, I go away for a few days and what do I find when I come back late at
night? A pixel storm!

On the good side: Gat€$' fortun€ has apparently $hrunk $ignificantly
recently....

On the bad side: Tony seems to have lost his will to contribute to our
musical and human development.

I've been aware of your tendency to call the shots as you see them ever since
I talked to you in the interval of a concert of a certain music group at the
Wigmore Hall (in 1975/6?) and your comment was that it sounded like a bunch
of [censored] trying to play music instruments.

I don't understand you any more than Roger G probably does. And I have
criticized your "impoliteness" in the past. But thinking about it now, I can
remember occasions where I suffered more from somebody's "polite" but less
direct and honest comments. Different people suffer from differents things in
different situations.....

Tony, you know that I have enjoyed and learned from your thoughts and
experience. Thank you!

David

P.S. Please correct me if I'm wrong but it wouldn't seem like *you* to give
up on the "few" because of the "others", would it?
P.P.S. In case I am wrong, I'm sending this to you privately as well. And now
to bed!

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