Re: a place called today

["Paul" <pauljohnson@mountsett.freeserve.co.uk>]

what a lovely email to receive on this list...

paul

-----Original Message-----
From: jjrd@sympatico.ca <jjrd@sympatico.ca>
To: f_minor@email.rutgers.edu <f_minor@email.rutgers.edu>
Date: 20 July 1999 10:40
Subject: a place called today


>
>Tonight is one of those numerous nights where I just cannot get to bed. My
>girlfriend is sleeping like a baby downstairs and here I am, in this office
>overlooking a dying industrial city, riveted to a Macintosh screen, the CBC
>muted in the background, with Webern's op. 27 looping into the Sennheisers.
>Tonight, I feel like writing a little letter to you, f_minor people. So
>that is precisely what I shall do. Here I am, writing to a bunch of
>strangers... people that somehow I just can't help but like. Why? Perhaps
>because of this common interest and/or passion that we share. Most days,
>the memory of a man is bringing us together. One, two... several letters.
>They come, they go. This forum is interesting. It really is. Serious at
>times, totally absurd at others. People may be on this forum for different
>reasons and might participate on a regular basis or simply read... it
>doesn't matter. I feel that anybody who once took the time to subscribe to
>a Glenn Gould forum (and stick around for a while) must be an interesting
>soul. An hopeless romantic, a young musician, a nostalgic fan, a severe
>researcher, a goofy "philanthrope", a monistic soul, a curious musicologist
>(hey, I am French, you may interpret the word "curious" in any sense that
>you wish), a music lover... your pick is as good as mine. The "variations
>on this theme" are as numerous as the number of individuals involved. With
>such a diverse group interested in such a man as Gould, I honestly don't
>believe that this forum can always be right on focus and only concentrate
>on the man and his music. Of course not. How would that be possible? How
>could a forum about Glenn Gould not divert into mathematics, logic,
>psychiatry, biotechnology? How could such a forum not at occasions be
>diving into new technologies, Sherlock Holmes stories, sudden Russian
>astrophysical revelations? How could such a forum not receive a prank
>letter once in a while? How could people not giggle at times in this
>f_minor of ours? And how could such a forum not talk about the greatest
>country on earth? (oh, for you people from out of town, I am talking about
>Canada, here, ok?) Or even cry, at times. Sorry to report, but anything is
>possible, here. We are talking about Gould, here.
>
>Tonight is one of those numerous nights where I just couldn't get to bed.
>Sometimes, I write. Sometimes, I read. Sometimes, I chat one the phone with
>a friend in Baltimore until the sun shows up for the both of us. And
>tonight, well, I wrote this little letter to you. Tonight, well... I talked
>about Glenn.
>
>
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