From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Latin, Shakespeare, and other irrelevant topics
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 03:51:53 GMT
Date: 2001-01-28T03:51:53+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101271915410.28283-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <94vnup$kia$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Robert Dewar wrote:
> In article
> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101262056580.20133-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
> Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> > like being forced to read Shakespeare.
>
> It's a shame to see an attitude like this. Anyone not able to
> appreciate Shakespeare is missing something pretty important
> in life
I don't think so. You're certainly entitled to choose to appreciate
whatever you want, but it's a bit silly to make a sweeping statement
like that. There are lots of things I don't appreciate, like opera,
and country & western music. No doubt a C&W fan would make the same sort
of remark about my disdain for his preferred art form as you Shakespeare
freaks would make. There are more preferences in heaven and earth, Robert,
than are dreamt of in your philosophy. :-)
> (the technical junk we all spend so much time with
> is not an adequate substitute :-)
The insinuation that I'm a technical monomaniac is without any basis
in reality. I read lots of nontechnical literature. The fact that I find
Shakespeare's work shallow and boring means nothing. I do find it
interesting that the Bard's fans get all worked up about it though. I've
enjoyed a few Stephen King novels (more than Shakepseare!) but when
someone says they don't like King I don't care. The Shakespeare worship
phenomena fascinates me because it has taken on the trappings of religion,
and when I reveal my distaste for this stuff someone like you or Pat Rogers
will come out with a ridiculous generalization on the power of his
words. It's almost like talking to Scientologists or ESTers. I spent a
fair amount of time being forced to read this stuff and IMHO it sucks.
If I really need to read verse there's always Vikram Seth :-)
> And perhaps we should change the subject again ...
Nah, this bizarre thread is really funny as it is, I love the way it
changes from one topic to another. Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in
illis.
Absit invidia...
-- Brian
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2001-01-26 16:31 ` Latin and other irrelevant topics Robert Dewar
2001-01-26 20:24 ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-27 5:12 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-27 13:58 ` Pat Rogers
2001-01-27 16:25 ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-28 0:09 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-28 0:08 ` Latin, Shakespeare, " Robert Dewar
2001-01-28 3:51 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
2001-01-28 13:00 ` Pat Rogers
2001-01-29 1:40 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-29 4:23 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-29 5:29 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-29 17:32 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-29 17:34 ` Pascal Obry
2001-01-29 6:04 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-29 17:39 ` Pascal Obry
2001-01-29 18:53 ` David Starner
2001-01-30 6:15 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-30 15:54 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-30 19:32 ` Martin Dowie
2001-02-02 22:11 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-02-03 0:17 ` David Starner
2001-01-29 16:16 ` Stephen Leake
2001-01-30 1:21 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-29 23:05 ` kopilovitch
2001-02-02 21:52 ` Latin, Shakespeare, Ecclesiastes " Mark Lundquist
2001-02-03 1:28 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-02-05 16:32 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-02-05 19:36 ` Al Christians
2001-02-07 18:59 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-02-08 19:19 ` Florian Weimer
2001-02-08 5:15 ` Latin, Shakespeare, " Buz Cory
2001-02-08 7:38 ` Al Christians
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2001-02-08 16:00 ` Ted Dennison
2001-02-08 19:47 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-01-26 21:06 ` Latin " Lao Xiao Hai
2001-02-08 16:02 Latin, Shakespeare, " Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
2001-02-10 6:47 ` Robert Dewar
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2001-02-08 17:46 ` sk
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2001-02-11 16:55 Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
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