Joel Hill laments:

>I have a sad feeling that some of you are missing out on becoming
>intimately familiar with much of the music that you are spending your
>money on.  I hope that I am wrong.

How right you are, in my case.  But there will soon be a time (oh, how very
soon) when my, er, acquisition of new CDs slows to a snail's pace, and I'll
have all the time in the world to go back and hit all the ones I've
neglected (or never heard!).

Intimate knowledge of a piece (of art!  not just music!) is very important;
but also a great pleasure to be savored gradually and over time.  Else I'd
spend all my days reading 'Ulysses' trying to figure out what the hell...

Bob K.