Howard, I'll try to forget your irony, but it is definitely better than nothing :)
> My very dear Jaroslaw; how good to hear from you. > > On Oct 8, 2012, at 12:41 PM, Jarosław Lipski <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Then, lets examine your own words without any additions. > > But with lots of subtractions; i.e. if you're going to parse, you should > parse completely, starting with the word "may." But enough; we're not in > such disagreement. > I couldn't quote everything, because it would be too long, besides it would change nothing. >> I never said that I believe in every word Mace wrote. > > And I never said I disbelieve every word he ever wrote. Of course, I'm not > putting a lute under a bedspread with two boys in the house. > Very good >> I never said I understand precisely what kind of red strings Mace meant and >> why he mentioned rotten strings. Possibilities are numerous. > > Absolutely. This all started when I suggested a few. You're free to > discount them. I'll discount nothing. However I tend to believe Mace a little bit more than you do. > But I think this exchange already has many listers going instinctively for > the delete button, and I'll leave off. > -- Great. Absolutely very good idea. I'm going to do the same thing. Hope that our time wasn't wasted and we had a chance to think about some details of Musick's Monument. All the best JL > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
