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To: Rambi who wrote (18441)	3/5/1999 7:23:00 PM
From: Rick Julian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Seems to me we're each here to perform our "song". Most of us have an intuitive sense of pleasing "harmony", and unsettling "dissonance", and strive to maintain the former in our performances because it keeps us and our "audiences" happiest. Not always easy though: of their natural accord, all instruments fall out of tune, and eventually break. Sometimes we can retune or replace parts. Sometimes we can't, and have to end our songs before we reach our coda. I love the song I was given to perform, but fear not being able to finish it (though I don't fear its end). Seems I keep bumping up the tempo believing it will help me reach my final bar, but 16th note runs and high Cs can be a real bitch at 180 bpm. . .I'm at presto when I want adagio . . . Blah, blah, blah . . . "Everything is Everything" (I can't see the world in any other way). [Smack, this little angst riddled ditty probably belongs on Feelings--the vibe over here is a wee lighter (a nice palate cleanser --like sorbet) . . oh fwell . . .]

To: Rambi who wrote (18441)	3/5/1999 11:23:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Sounds to me like you wimps are superstitious. I ain't afraid of no Creator of the Universe. 'Cept when it's dark, I'm alone, and a 6.5 earthquake starts rattling the house...

To: Rambi who wrote (18441)	3/6/1999 11:19:00 AM
From: DScottD	Respond to of 71178

<and the fact that he can no longer throw his 90 mph fastball.> But if he were to develop a good knuckleball, he wouldn't need to worry about not being able to bring the heat anymore. For some reason I'm reminded of an excerpt from a scouting report I read in a baseball book once that said, in reference to one of those players too good a hitter to stay in the minor leagues but not quite good enough to hang on in the big leagues, "The only thing keeping him from being a star is major league pitching."