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Re: Please lets all sit together now and define what we do!
<smile> Why does quoting another make one's ideas "more valid?"
They're valid anyway... lol!
I like comming up with my own quotes...
Smiles,
CQ
At 03:25 PM 10/14/02 EDT, you wrote:
>doug,
>
>>Interesting. I had always heard it attributed to Elvis Costello. Now,
>>based on your input, I did a little research, and found this:
>>http://home.pacifier.com/~ascott/they/tamildaa.htm
>>Seems like a lot of people are confused about it's origins ;)
>indeed!
>in fact, i heard frank zappa say this *waaaaaay* back in the 1970's;
>he was quoting someone, but i don't know whom..... i vaguely remembered
>him
>mentioning either varése or slonimsky in the same breath.
>i did see (-but-) on the net that someone attributed this to ernest
>hemingway, who mouthed it when asked what he thought of varése's piece,
>'ionisation'.
>best,
>dt / splattercell
>
>
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