on 11/19/02 4:10 PM, Patrice L. Roussel at proussel@ichips.intel.com wrote:
Or maybe they simply disagree because the statement is questionable. Since Beethoven has been around for a while and rates quite high on the achievement scale (read: we still remember him after more than two centuries), maybe people have reasons to be skeptical and think twice before jumping to conclusions following what might be a purely provocative statement. On the other side, you seem to embrace that idea simply because it matches your anti-conformist agenda. And we are not in the sixties...
1. We should probably all be skeptical anyway. 2. "Purely provocative" sounds like a synonymn for "with no basis in actual fact", which is accurate 3. We are not in the sixties? Lunatic in the White House, unjustifiable war at hand, lots of drugs all around, and Bob Dylan's made two really good albums in a row. You can see where some of us feel confused. sh