Dear Struan,
another quality event: Struan's unsubscription!
:-)
No, sorry, it's of course a pity if you go away. I think Roger is right, you will come back: how could you bear a life without any MOQer to attack?
Of course you already know the obvious answer is that the value of an idea (intellectual pattern?) can't reside in the amount of pages sold in a certain period (social pattern?).
Today no Fellini movies are in program here in Italian cinemas, but it doesn't mean that "La Dolce Vita" (SweetLife) has no value! And probably also a lot of Django Reinhardt recorded pieces are just a rarity for jazz fans.
The importance of the Aristotle Metaphysics doesn't resides in the number of copies sold, rather in how many thinkers took the Aristotle's philosophy as basis for their investigations on reality.
So, sorry, your battle is still necessary, as long as a group of people, many English, use to download everyday this mailing list and discuss consequently.
BTW, I can assure that both Lila and ZAMM are still in the bookstores here (is it 'cause we are barbarian latins?). If you ever will come to "Umbria Jazz" festival in Perugia, you will see it with your eyes. And who knows? Maybe we will meet there.
Take care of yourself. MOQers are everywhere.
Marco.
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 23:15:29 +0100
From: Struan Hellier <struan@clara.co.uk>
Subject: RE: MD A quality event
To: moq_discuss@moq.org
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Greetings,
SORRY, COULDN'T RESIST.
JoVo, I got your posting simultaneously with my 'unsubscribe confirmed' posting and wished I had got
it before that in order to answer it. So I re-subscribed for the briefest of periods just to say one
or two things.
I spent a few years as a professional jazz musician playing in and around London (that is my
'Romantic' side which people here have rarely seen and, might I say, it is far greater than the
Pretti, Buchanan romantic side, which considers getting fucked out of your mind on LSD as the
highest point of human existence). After one or two interim moves I now teach philosophy, ethics and
critical thinking at a top English, fee paying, boarding school. My own area of academic expertise
is moral philosophy and I spend my 'spare' time researching further into it and, otherwise, playing
jazz music part-time as a semi-pro.
This weekend (23rd-25th June) I am playing in Samois-sur-Seine, a small village just south of Paris,
celebrating the life and work of the greatest European jazz musician, Django Reinhardt. If anyone
can make it, I seriously recommend it for the music, which includes some of the best Gypsy Jazz
players in Europe, Bireli Lagrene, Titi Winterstein, Note Manouche, and from the US, The Hot Club of
San Francisco + (back to Europe) Django's son, Babik Reinhardt and, probably, Jimmy Rosenburg, Fapy
Lafertin etc, etc). This all takes place on a small Island in the middle of the river and is simply
the best place in the whole world - actually the music is only half of it.
Check out, http://django.samois.free.fr/ for more details.
Oh, and the second thing JoVo (or Ian if he gets in first), I like your attitude very much. If you
want my copy of Lila, then get in touch. I have no desire or need to keep it and will post it on
very happily.
Thanks for the information about Lila being out of Germany. It is 'all good' after all, and getting
better. Elias, I will look into. Thanks also for that tip.
Take care. Be assured that the waters will be calm from now on, JoVo. That will please the
staticticians (yes, statiCticians) beyond measure. Back to the champagne for me!
Struan
P.S From this e-mail forward, if anyone wants to say anything which they want me to see, then cc a
copy to me, otherwise, to me at least, it will be lost in the ether.
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Struan Hellier
< mailto:struan@clara.co.uk>
"All our best activities involve desires which are disciplined and
purified in the process."
(Iris Murdoch)
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