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To: Rambi who wrote (35917)	4/26/1999 12:41:00 PM
From: Chuzzlewit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

That's wonderful, Rambi. I had the same experience with my children too. Unfortunately it only lasted until they got into jr. high school. I guess the peer pressure was too great. Now my son listens to what I could only describe as noise. Fortunately, my daughter is rediscovering the joys of music. She came by the other night, sat down at the piano and played the second movement of the Pathetique. It was such a joy to hear her play once more. There is a maxim in business: bad money drives out good. Does this work with culture as well? TTFN, CTC

To: Rambi who wrote (35917)	4/26/1999 12:45:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 108807

I had some snobbish fun yesterday. Chris, Ben and I were coming home in the Rover, and stopped at a red light next to some kid (baseball cap on backwards, natch) with a loud sound system blasting out rap, you know the stuff that makes his car sound like it's going "whoofa-whoofa-whoofa-whoofa" because the bass line is about to blow his speakers? Crossing my fingers, I turned on a classical station - - YES! it was playing opera. Some guy and gal wailing away in Italian, probably Verdi or Puccini, but how would I know? Quickly, I opened all the windows and sunroof and cranked up the opera loud enough to drown out the rap. The rapper gave me dirty looks, and Ben gave me a high five.

To: Rambi who wrote (35917)	4/26/1999 3:03:00 PM
From: Thomas C. White	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

books with uncut pages in expensive libraries.. Ohh, at least in Dallas they are honest enough not to even bother to take them out of the library. In New York and San Francisco, people buy books like that to put on their home bookshelves, carefully making sure to break the binder and penning in a few margin notes in case someone visits and pulls it off the shelf to browse through, and reading perhaps the first chapter or two so they are not caught with snobbish pantaloons around their tushes at gallery openings.