tomorrow

[Anne Beetem]

I would like to nominate the following for best contribution for 1997.  
Thank you Les!  My best friend is a cigar smoking composer who's going to
get a copy of this. 


At 02:55 AM 12/3/97 -0500, you wrote:
>WARNING:_ WAY_ OFF TOPIC!!!!
>
>On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Horace Greeley wrote:
>
>> When reading Freud, one is always well
>> advised to remember that his cigar,
>> was a cigar.
>
>Sorry, Horace, I gotta disagree. What's important is that while Freud  
>SAID his cigar was just a cigar, and maybe even BELIEVED that it was just
>a cigar, as one of his colleagues pointed out, when you create a universe     
>bounded on all sides by bagels and cigars, a cigar can never again be
>"just" a cigar, nor a bagel, "just" a bagel. Jung goes on to tell us
>that Freud's father always smoked BIGGER cigars and was often heard to
>remind his son of the famous words of that well-known existentialist
>philosopher, Jimmy Durante, who once said that "The piano player who
>smokes the biggest cigars always gets the girls". Modern, post-Freudian 
>piano technicians attribute the somewhat strange ideas and theories
>expressed in CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS to Freud's inability to
>escape from the shadow of his father's presence and also to Frued's
>proclivity to using CA glue without adequate ventilation. Nevertheless
>it still makes fine reading because when brilliant minds miss the mark,
>sometimes they make brilliant mistakes, which are, in themselves, still
>more interesting and instructive than those made by mere mortals like
>ourselves. So it was with Freud. I have always thought that Freud would
>have nade an excellent speed-stringer in a piano factory, because he
>would have undoubtedly visualized each pin to be his father as he
>visciously pounded it home into the pinblock--at least that's the way
>_I've_ always done it! :)
>
>Perhaps, in that not-too-distant future, when they come in the dead of
>night to take the two of us away, we can request adjoining padded
>cells. That way, in addition to discussing pianos and philosophy, we
>can also play chess and consider an idea once expressed by turn-of-
>the-century (WHAT ELSE?!!) World chess champion, Emanuel Lasker, when
>he  said, "I have spent the last half of my life trying to forget
>everything I learned during the first half of my life, in the hopes
>that I might thereby be able to exchange knowledge for wisdom." Not
>bad for an old German dude, with a droopy mustach, who liked to smoke
>cigars, huh?! 
>
>Regards,
>
>Les Smith
>lessmith@buffnet.net 
>
>
>


Anne Beetem
Harpsichords & Historic Pianos
2070 Bingham Ct.
Reston, VA  20191
abeetem@wizard.net