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- From: nsn@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Nick Nicholas)
- Subject: Re: Australians (was Re: accidently out)
- Message-ID: <nsn.725182637@munagin>
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <nsn.724115519@munagin> <BzDtv5.A8@kathunk.phaedrav.on.ca> <1h8c2oINN6nn@bang.hal.COM>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:37:17 GMT
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- landman@hal.COM (Howard Landman) writes:
- >>Nick Nicholas (nsn@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU) wrote:
- >>: (And what is it with
- >>: bisexuals liking Mahler? Tim, me, Zoe, Kay... ok, ok, small sample size,
- >Not me. I find Mahler has some interesting ideas, but he just goes on with
- >them for SSOOOOO LLOOOONNGG that it eventually becomes rather boring.
-
- *smile* Actually, I think ninety minutes is extraordinarily *short* for
- Gustav to develop all his ideas, when his sonata form is under control...
- but that's just me :) There's virtue in brevity, of course. When it
- comes to the written word, I have far more time for, say Victor Sadler's
- 10-verse miniatures in Esperanto than many a looooooong Romantic English
- poem...
-
- >Although, I did sit through Mahler's 7th live this year and actually enjoyed
- >parts of it.
-
- Let me modify my initial assertion to "what is it with bisexuals liking
- all the Mahler I don't?!" :) His First and Seventh are IMVHO his least
- successful works...
-
- (Timbo, of course, likes the Fifth best. Which means he's a man of impeccable
- taste. But I already knew that! :) Tim, hear the Ninth! PLEASE!
-
- >I have similar preferences in authors. I like Borges because he comes up
- >with an amazing idea and disposes of it in a few pages, where some other
- >authors would take 3 novels to deal less well with the same idea.
-
- Yup. I can't stand novels for that reason. And is Borges not a dude! Although
- to any computer science oriented person, his marvel at recursion and the
- infinities must seem a little quaint...
-
- >Of course, I'm only Kinsey 1, so what do I know?
-
- About as much as the Kinsey 1 writing this? *smile*
-
- Kinsey 1, and falling... at least politically. For the past six months, I've
- been vaccilating between "Yeah, this queerness thing is me" and "Aargh! What
- am I getting myself into?!" After about three months, I gave up worrying
- about it; I have better things to spend my time on. This past week, though,
- it's been more like "Yeah, this queerness thing is me" and "Queerness?
- *shrug* What's it got to do with me?"...
-
- I'm not going to get stressed about it, and I'm not going to mold myself
- consciously (I'll keep an eye on me, perhaps). If I do end up straight...
- God knows I can never go back to being narrow. And *I* see no reason why
- the friendships I've established in the queer world (on net and off)
- should be annulled. Changed in manner, maybe; not annulled.
-
- If I don't end up straight, then that, of course, is fair enough too.
- Especially if there are any Crisco Kids and pots of honey in the
- vicinity! %^)
-
- Hoping he hasn't just tied in to the old debate on how much of a supporter
- you can be without experiencing oppression,
-
- "Kai` sa`n swqh~kan t'akriba` piota`, N N O nsn@munagin.ee.mu.oz.au
- kai` sa`n plhsi'aze pia` [h [w'ra te'sseres, I I L IRC:nicxjo RL:shaddupnic
- sto`n e'rwta doqh~kan eutuxei~s." C C A University of Melbourne.
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