Klarinet Archive - Posting 000026.txt from 2006/02

From: Laurence Beckhardt <lbeckhardt@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: new Mozart finds
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 21:18:04 -0500

isn't a "moron" some kind of chestnut? and chestnuts
are good

--- Rien Stein <rstein@-----.nl> wrote:

> Last Saturday I sent an e-mail to this list
> expressing my doubts as to the
> "discovery" Dan Leeson announced with respect to
> Mozart properties.
>
> Monday night I watched a beautifully played
> performance of the Gran
> Partit(t)a. After that I opened my mail, and one of
> the first things I read
> was Dan's answer to my mail. Dan thought it
> necessary to cal me a Moron. I
> was so surprised and upset I took my dictionary to
> check whether this word
> meant what I thought it meant. It did. I immediately
> sent a rather sharp
> e-mail to this list. This mail came back as being
> undeliverable (a problem I
> often have with this list). It was already late at
> night, and in a way I
> felt relieved it wouldn't arrive.
>
> Tonight I read my mail since that moment, and
> suddenly there was -- you
> guess it already -- exactly this same mail in the
> digest, followed by the
> mail I sent Saturday night! I have my MSc in
> computer science, but this is
> one of those ununderstandable things: there is no
> virus in my computer, nor
> any other thing unhealthy (I checked that already),
> yet this mail and a
> previous one suddenly arrive somewhere they should
> not arrive anymore.
>
> I am NOT going to offer Dan my apologies. I still
> doubt the reality of his
> discovery. Someone wrote me I was arrogant to doubt
> Dan's announcement, as
> he is one of the greatest experts on Mozart. That is
> not what I discussed: I
> cannot judge that, although I think he is an expert
> on WAM. Rereading the
> pagelong journal's article however, my doubts are
> even strengthened. I will
> not elaborate this, read the article critically
> yourself. And I still am
> offended by Dan's calling me a moron, I think HE
> should apologise, he
> started calling names! He won't, I am convinced.
>
> Have a good night.
>
> Rien
>
>
>
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