Klarinet Archive - Posting 000170.txt from 2001/10

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] clean slate
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 08:22:55 -0400

At 10:27 PM 10/07/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>It does seem to me that both of you guys will go to any lengths to win an
>argument, and that is fine with me.

I understand Annie - really.

My point in what I wrote last night is that one cannot say things about one
person in front of others - whatever they want, whenever they want - and
then expect to wipe the slate clean without resolving what was said. It
seems a bit odd to me that someone would want to wipe it clean after going
to so much trouble to mess it up.............

I'm perfectly happy to have a clean slate. I just don't think that holding
the list hostage - by expecting a certain standard - is the best way to do
that. In fact, it seems a bit contrary to the goal don't you think? It
also gives a person license to say whatever, do whatever - whenever - if
some poor guy ambles onto the list and asks a question that doesn't meet
the standard.

And to Catherine Aday <cmaday@-----.net> , who wrote:
"Good Grief, you are Grown men, with professional jobs.... so GROW UP! Just
want to let you know that you are really making yourselves look bad."

I respond......

Have you been talking to my wife?????

Best wishes,
Roger Garrett

Clarinet Professor
Director, Symphonic Winds
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
Phone: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3121

"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me,
this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very
best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until
the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't
amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels swearing I
was right would make no difference."
-Abraham Lincoln

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