Re: Hexagrams [was Re: hypothetical Yangshao calendar (early China)]

From: Comm (tjsrno_at_spampost.com)
Date: 03/06/05 

Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 01:38:08 GMT

"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:422A2931.6E98@worldnet.att.net...
> Comm wrote:
>>
>> <a.manansala@attbi.com> wrote in message
>> news:1109914544.223246.291120@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>> >
>> > What do you mean it is misleading.
>> >
>> > What do the trigrams represent then?
>> >
>> I can't draw hexagrams on here,
>
> Why not? Here are a few:
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> --- --- --- ---

I have a font that gives them. Why not? Because. Why? Because. I'd have
to put them in the text, between words, where they belonged. They'd have to
be as small as the printed words. Why? Because. Get lost in because then.
You do.

You know, you have gone out of your way to take this way further than just
some inability you have to agree to disagree on the whole NON issue of
Sumer/Tatar/Austronesian/China etc debate. Cultural contact versus - what
would amount to morphogenesis.

You asked me for a url to novel - I gave it, as if you had any sincere
intention of real interest. You proceed to trash creative writing that was
given very good rating on amazom (who upped the price on it).

You asked me about music. You do not figure that I can naturally play the
pieces in order to change them into dance music. You trash me instead.
I've written and sold music - and no, I will not give you a url, not now.
Sucker me once, never twice. You are also apparently the type to claim that
people like "The Beatles" are not musicians - or that Jack Benny was not a
musician, or maybe even claim that John Coltrane didn't write music or
wasn't a musician. I am a musician. I've had classical training. I
**prefer** ballroom music and mentioned some beautiful songs by name,
tangos. There is no law saying I can't take pieces that I can play and
change them. I strongly doubt that Chopin would mind if he was alive. The
man had a life, he danced and loved - and I'm sure he'd love the samba and
tango. He was not some stodgy idiot guffawing over the "Classics." I'd
have to be able to play them in order to change them or play them any other
way. I can tell you, playing FanImp by Chopin as a samba was a LOT harder
than playing it straight - and I mean the entire piece. There is just
something about a rhythm machine in the background, relentlessly beating out
a rhythm that makes FI a lot harder to play - considering how fast the piece
is - and having to change what the left hand is doing to chords. A lot
harder. I even had to slow it down since the speed was too fast for a
samba - and still, it was a lot harder to play as a samba than play
straight. I couldn't quite figure out why, either. Perhaps because I'm
used to playing it straight. Also I know because the keyboard revoices
chords so that what I'm actually hitting with my fingers is not what I
expect to come out. That plus that relentless beat.

You know, if you had been a HUMAN BEING, I'd have sincerely asked you which
rendering of Passacaglia in C minor you liked best. But others are reading.
That, plus the A minor Adagio from Bach's Tocatta Adagio and Fugue in C
major (as played by E. Power Biggs only) are my two and only favorite Bach
organ pieces. I pass on all the others. But I can see this is a waste of
time to ask you. I can't even say something without you either misreading
it or misquoting it on purpose. (MY mistake, on c 256 - comes from doing
two things at once).

For anyone else interested, I think E. Power Biggs's Passacaglia Cm Bach was
the best I ever heard. The only rendering of Passacaglia in Cm I can say
actually tops that is one I downloaded in a little midi file. Every single
note is so clear, so precise and crisp - it gives me the chills to hear it.
And I also think that is one of the most beautiful pieces ever written. If
anyone wants a copy of it, say so here if you are reading this. I can email
it, it's small enough (150 or so kb). The Fugue is included. The file is
no longer up at any midi site - I have it.

You are a very mean spirited person, Peter. I would assume that you have
real problems in real life agreeing to disagree - and that would mean that
if a colleague of yours in a university strongly disagreed with everything
you said - and you found out he liked ballroom dancing, you'd trash his
likes and even try to say he can't dance, or something dumb like that.

I can hate a person's guts because they murdered my dog and ripped me off
and vandalized my car. But if that person can do something, or if that
person is handsome or pretty, my opinion does not change becaue I hate the
person. I don't immediately look for argument, even when the person has
been so bad toward me. It's just not my nature - and maybe that's my
problem. You hate me - that is MORE than obvious to any objective reader.
Can you even own up to that? I think not, you'll hide behind a joke. Yet
you have no real reason at all. You have problems - that's for sure - and I
doubt they have a thing to do with some silly debate or repeated posts or
old information or whatever else your superficial gripe is.

And when you want to know "What is your cultural attitude toward raising
children?" you do not ask "Have you beaten and abused your kids lately?"

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> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net

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