Klarinet Archive - Posting 000087.txt from 2004/07

From: "Warren Rosenberg" <wrosenberg47@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Non-clarinet topics.
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 21:42:57 -0400

Thank you John for writing sane, reasonable words. (read down)
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Dablin" <jdablin@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Non-clarinet topics.

> I agree with Walter Grabner that (some of) "the outbursts ... are
interesting
> and enlightening".
>
> If we were in one room, sitting around chatting, we could all see each
other,
> hear each other's voices, and know each other as people. E-mail, on the
> other hand, is cold and anonymous. If nobody ever posted anything the
least
> bit off topic, it would be like reading a text book. These outbursts, and
> all the other less vociferous discussions, help build a picture of the
people
> taking part, and suggest the characters behind the names. So I've stayed
on
> the unmoderated list, it's much more lively and colourful.
>
WR: Gee, Someone who enjoys life!
How nice!

> Actually, I wonder what picture I evoke, if anything? Probably I'm the
quiet
> one, sitting at the side and taking it all in, saying something
occasionally,
> but not getting a word in edgeways very often.
>
WR: Silent waters run deep...

> But carry on as we are, I say. There are plenty of clarinet and other
musical
> topics in between the disputes and arguments, but this is a community of
> several hundred real people, and real people will disagree, and fight and
> argue. In fact, I subscribe to the view that it is only through such
> disputes and arguments that we, as a race, make progress - if everyone
agreed
> about everything, nobody would ever have to think, and then where would we
> be?
>
WR: We might be on the "preferred/selected" Klarinet list!!!

> John Dablin
> Aylesbury UK
>
> ... who is now shrinking back into the sofa :-)
>
> WR: Your thoughts are very well-said!
THANK YOU!!
PS. Many great things have been created on a sofa! :-) !

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