Klarinet Archive - Posting 000258.txt from 2002/06

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] A (musical?) game
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 03:56:52 -0400

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 21:43:56 -0500, forestaten@-----.com said:

> Once "upon".....

Once upon "a" [time there were two clarinet players who tried to play an
interactive game on the Klarinet list. In the end they became so
obsessed with it, and it consumed so much bandwidth, that Mark Charette
had to throw them off the list.

[It was decided further that they needed to get a life, and as a
rehabilitation measure, they were regressed to their early teens and put
in the charge of a brilliant and charismatic clarinet teacher, who
pushed them to his, and their, limits. And due to some as yet
unexplained feature of the regression, this time round they wound up
with immaculate techniques and near-photographic memories for music.
Their performances of the duo repertoire were flawless, and they had
international careers both seperately and together.

[What no-one on the Klarinet list could understand, however, was that
they weren't particularly happy or fulfilled. They complained that
somehow, they hadn't *chosen* their careers. The success didn't belong
to them, and so no amount of acknowledgement from public or critics was
enough to satisfy them. Other people clamoured to go through the
process, saying that *they* wouldn't be worried by anything like that
sort of psychobabble; but in the meantime the scientist who had done the
regression had died, taking his secret with him, and the clarinet
teacher had retired, declaring that he had wasted his life on others.

[The two clarinet players retired, and took up gardening. They still
sometimes play their game on ICQ.]

Tony
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