some of my best friends are Philistines. ------------------------ Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> -----Original Message----- > From: Shane Mage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 7:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PEN-L] More on the labor theory of value > > > JD wrote: > "Wagner's music is better than it sounds." -- Mark Twain > (paraphrased). > > Mark Twain was making a perceptive comment on contemporary > American standards of musical performance, not a philistine > denegration of one of the greatest composers ever. > > Shane Mage > > "When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all > things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even > downright silly. > > When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all > things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. > Weiner) >
