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Re: 'baroque'
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turpin d'isigny-ffytche <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 3 May 2007 15:24:31 +0200
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Am 3. Mai 2007 um 2:11pm schrieb Michael Smith:

> On Thursday 03 May 2007 04:25, Hinrich wrote:
>> Announcers don't have to know anything; they are just announcing.
>>  From a host of a musical program I would expect expertise in the
>> subject.
>
> Calling Rameau the "French Bach" doesn't sound like something you'd 
> say if you
> didn't know anything and knew you didn't know anything. It sounds like
> something you'd say if you thought you knew something but didn't.
>
> Michael J "Rumsfeld Chiasticus" Smith
>
It was of course a SwissGerman announcer, a condition of body and mind 
which may preclude the possibility of ever knowing anything of the 
divine Rameau, choreographer of mille tendresses,  to introduce whom i 
sometimes  subvert/redeem my mother's contemptuous 'alot of song and 
dance about nothing'
!
devotedly, viscount turde

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