John Smyth wrote:

>Hmmmm.  Politicians have people to catch this kind of stuff!

John was referring to two different posts of mine where he's sure he's
caught me in a contradiction.  But, in one post I was talking about
individuals who totally dislike, even detest, modernist music.  In the
other, my focus was individuals who also bad-mouth the work, the composer,
and the listener who claims to like it.  I think that's a major difference.
Politicians would do well not to hire John.

John also referred to a posting I started more than a year ago, "The
All-Wrong CD Awards." That posting's main reason for being was to provide
humor, but I did write unkindly of certain artists.  I'm not like that
anymore (sounds like Clint Eastwood in The Unforgiven).  I've had my
personality-change operation and am a kind person now.

Mr. Smyth either has a great memory (I hardly remembered the posting),
went to Dave's Archives on a hunting expedition, or printed a copy of my
post when it was current.  Whichever, I am impressed.

Don Satz
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