[5498] in Central_America
New quotes for Wed Jun 29
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Wed Jun 29 03:22:37 1994
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1994 03:22:04 -0400
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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abegel (Andrew B Begel):
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ckclark (Calvin Clark):
From the ppmtopgm(1) man page:
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Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colors from our sight
Red is gray, and yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is a quantization error.
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sgw (stephen g. wadlow):
The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68,
and he told me all romantics meet the same fate someday
cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.
"You laugh", he said, "you think you're immune, go look at your eyes
they're full of moon you like roses and kisses and pretty men to tell
you all those pretty lies pretty lies, only pretty lies, just pretty
lies."
He put a quarter in the Wurlitzer, and he pushed three buttons
and the thing began to wirr
And a bar maid came by in fishnet stockings and a bow tie
and she said "Drink up now it's getting on time to close."
"Richard, you haven't really changed," I said
"It's just that now you're romanticizing some pain in you're head
You got tombs in your eyes, but the songs you punched are dreaming.
Listen, they sing of love so sweet.
When you gonna get yourself back on your feet?
Oh and love can be so sweet, Love so sweet."
Richard got married to a figure skater,
and he bought her a dishwasher and a Coffee percolator
and he drinks at home now most nights with the T.V. on
and all the house lights left up bright.
I'm gonna blow this damn candle out,
I don't want Nobody comin' over to my table.
I got nothing to talk to anybody about
All good dreamers pass this way someday
Hiding' behind bottles in dark cafes, dark cafes.....
Only a dark cocoon before I get my gorgeous wings and fly away
Only a phase, these dark cafe days.
"The Last Time I Saw Richard"
by Joni Mitchell
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therese (Therese):
Beethoven's gone but his music lives on
and Mozart don't go shopping no more.
You'll never meet Liszt or Brahms again
and Elgar doesn't answer the door.
Schubert and Chopin used to chuckle and
love whiles composing their long symphony.
But one hundred and fifty years later
there's very little of them left to see.
The decomposing composers.
There's nothing much anyone can do.
You can still hear Beethoven
but Beethoven cannot hear you.
H{ndel and Haydn and Rachmaninov
enjoyed a nice drink with their meal.
But nowadays no one will serve them
and their grave it is left to conceal.
Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds
with their highly original sound.
The pianos like Pleyel does still working
but thereabout six feet under ground.
The decomposing composers.
There's less of them every year.
You can say what you like to Debussy
but there's not much of him left to hear.
Claude Achille Debussy. Died 1918.
Christoph Willibald Gluck. Died 1787.
Carl Maria von Weber. Not at all well 1825. Died 1826.
Giacomo Meyerbeer. Still alive 1863. Not still alive 1864.
Modest Musorgski. 1880 going to parties. No fun any more 1881.
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