_1984_ (was Re: ET for Guitar)-kinda off topic

kam544@flash.net kam544@flash.net
Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:03:43 -0600


>...I certainly
>do remember what happened to Winston, that is the point of the whole story.
>Bill Bremmer RPT

Dear Bill, List,

Please understand, Bill, that I am not in disagreement with your premise
that people do have the right and ability to question things.  However, the
point of the whole story of _1984_ is that Winston *did do* such a thing,
believing he could get away with defying Big Brother (the controlling
authority), and he *did not* succeed.  Therefore, using _1984_ to support
your position is antithetical.  That's all.

Maybe _The Fountainhead_ by Ann Rand, or some other literary piece would
serve your thesis, but not _1984_.

>I must admit I forget what happened to Julia.  Didn't she turn him in or
>something?
>(From my recollection), "You want a vision of the future, Winston?
> Imagine a
>boot stepping on a face for eternity", said his tormentor.

http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/1984.htm
will answer your question and give you a better remembrance of what really
did happen at the end of the story.  O'Brian, the rats, "Do it to Julia.",
the Chestnut Tree Café, drinking Victory Gin and playing chess, "I love Big
Brother".

>I'm sure Glad that PTG has not yet gone to the point of officially dictating
>ET as the only acceptable and/or *permissible* way to tune the piano the way
>the Luthier Guild has gone on record for the guitar.

I can't really ever imagine that happening.  From the folks I have met in
the Piano Technicians Guild (PTG) over the years, PTG, as an association,
has always managed to move forward, for the most part, towards a less
oppresive entity, and towards a more enlightened state of being.

I have complete confidence that realized awareness in the individual
members of the PTG will always prevail over any temporal, tyrannical
proclamations made by a few.

Sincerely,

Keith McGavern
Registered Piano Technician
Oklahoma Chapter 731
Piano Technicians Guild
USA




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