Re: 'Good' Wagner

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From: Stimpy (stimpy@freedomdrivingaids.com)
Date: 02/26/02-11:07:29 PM Z

Didn't Twain attribute this quote to Bill Nye?

> Hi Eugene:
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> Please do not enter my "Chambre d'art imaginaire" :-)
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> Alejandro López de Haro
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robkin, Eugene" <erobkin@uwc.edu>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:50 PM
> Subject: "Good" Wagner
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>> For what it is worth.
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>> The quote about Wagner's music is attributed to Mark Twain: "Wagner's
>> music is better than it sounds." I haven't dug deep enough to tell
>> where or when he said that.
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>> The locked room with the art work (La chambre d'art imaginaire) as
>> described does not meet the requirements to be an example of a
>> Schroedinger's Cat experiment. Check the Internet. There is
>> sufficient explanation there for this purpose.
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>> As far as discussions of what is "good" ________ is concerned (You can
>> fill in the blank to suit yourselves) there is a Latin proverb that
>> covers the ground as well as anything can.
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>> De gustibus non disputandum
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>> There is some good mathematics here to reinforce the proverb but that
>> discussion should be off list.
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>> ER
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