This place sure goes in "spurts"

Peter Garrett peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au
Tue Jul 21 21:15:17 BST 2009


On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:05:05 +0100
David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 2009/7/21 Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>:
> > On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:38:05 +0100
> > David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >> Richard Dawkins spoke in favour of the perpetual unavailability of
> >> music, as per his new book The Art Delusion. “‘Music’ appears to be an
> >> entirely subjective phenomenon with little or no objective
> >> measurements possible — much like any other brand of snake oil or
> >> balderdash. Music seems to be a sort of virus on human consciousness,
> >> parasitically sapping the collective intelligence of the human race.”
> 
> > I weep for Richard Dawkins.
> 
> 
> *cough* it was satirical exaggeration.

I did actually get it, sort of ;) In fact my first reply went to your
address by mistake, and I qualified this with "If he was serious" -and
said that it read as a sarcasm to me. 

Drat, I left that out of my follow up to the list :)

That'll teach me to remember looking at headers...

Peter
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