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Jim Cook <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:26:09 -0600
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This made my day!

I don't know what made me laugh harder:  Your purple "quotation" or your
matter-of-fact dismissal of its content.

Thanks, Andrés!



Andrés Günther wrote:

> Andres Gunther
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> Slightly out of the idea, and rather humorous: It always makes me laugh
> aloud when I see in a movie or read in a cheap "historic novel" things like
> this:
>  "At midnight, Johann Sebastian Bach walked over to St. Thomas. Alone with
> himself and his inspiration, at the tiny light of his little lantern and the
> moon he walked up the steps to the choir, sat down at the majestic
> instrument, and soon a marvellous, silvery sound of incredible beauty was
> heard in the night..."
> What do these guys suppose the organ was powered with, or how the heck JSB
> got a Kalkant at these late night hours?!
>

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