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   daletx to brian mitchell   
   Re: Peace (was Re: Deepak Chopra on Trum   
   26 Aug 16 12:58:53   
   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.zen, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism   
   From: daletx@gnusguy.com   
      
   On 8/25/2016 5:38 PM, brian mitchell wrote:   
   > "djinn" wrote:   
   >> "brian mitchell"  wrote in message   
   >> news:r2eurbdo8pc5n2gbcthiqep7c0tc45nmhr@4ax.com...   
   >>   
   >> daletx wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Very nice, although a far cry from The Band.   
   >>>   
   >>> I guess we're getting Bach to where we once belonged.   
   >>   
   >>> The master! :-)   
   >>   
   >> bach is great but to me beethoven was the most   
   >> creative classical music genius. you always knew   
   >> what a mad genius beethoven was, but you learn   
   >> to appreciate it much more when you sit down at   
   >> the piano and actually try to play some of it.   
   >   
   > Actually, I meant that DT was the master.   
      
   Oh, lord.  I considered that interpretation, and rejected it.  Two keys   
   to being a good punster: a good memory, and bad hearing.  Amazing what   
   the combination will come up with sometimes.   
      
   > I have to confess that   
   > Bach's music does nothing for me at all. BBC Radio 3 once devoted 10   
   > days to playing every bit of music Bach ever wrote, or maybe it was   
   > all the Bachs, I can't remember now, and it was so boring I wrote a   
   > stiff letter of complaint. Nothing from the Baroque period moves me at   
   > all.   
      
   I was gonna chastise djinn, since I enjoy both, but man, there is   
   something wrong with you. ;-)   
      
   DT   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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