Klarinet Archive - Posting 000398.txt from 2002/05

From: w7wright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: [kl] From Cartellieri to SpongeBob SquarePants
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 15:50:30 -0400

<><> Lelia Loban wrote:
If we all turned squiddy enough to breathe water, and to breathe it into
a clarinet

I happen to know a lungfish 'down under' --- in Australia, that is ---
named (of course) Larry the Lung.

Larry tells me that he has heard Leather Lungs Lester and the
Lake-dwellers. Larry says that water has too much inertia to produce
the reed-driven frequencies that are demanded by 'good' underwater music
--- such as Mozart's infrequently-heard "Serenade in a Bath Tub for Comb
and Kelp Leaves" or Hogwood Hagglefish's even less-frequently-heard
"Water Music in the Muck Marsh."

<><> (ignoring glassy-eyed look of disgusted disbelief from Shadow Cat)

Please tell Shadow for me that Lester would make a better meal than a
musician! Larry is willing to provide a suitable barbeque fire along
the river bank, if Shadow is interested.

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