From: nsn@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Nick Nicholas)
Subject: Re: Australians (was Re: accidently out)
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:37:17 GMT

landman@hal.COM (Howard Landman) writes:
>>Nick Nicholas (nsn@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU) wrote:
>>: (And what is it with
>>: bisexuals liking Mahler? Tim, me, Zoe, Kay... ok, ok, small sample size,
>Not me.  I find Mahler has some interesting ideas, but he just goes on with
>them for SSOOOOO LLOOOONNGG that it eventually becomes rather boring.

*smile* Actually, I think ninety minutes is extraordinarily *short* for
Gustav to develop all his ideas, when his sonata form is under control...
but that's just me :) There's  virtue in brevity, of course. When it
comes to the written word, I have far more time for, say Victor Sadler's
10-verse miniatures in Esperanto than many a looooooong Romantic English
poem...

>Although, I did sit through Mahler's 7th live this year and actually enjoyed
>parts of it.

Let me modify my initial assertion to "what is it with bisexuals liking
all the Mahler I don't?!" :) His First and Seventh are IMVHO his least
successful works...

(Timbo, of course, likes the Fifth best. Which means he's a man of impeccable
taste. But I already knew that! :) Tim, hear the Ninth! PLEASE!

>I have similar preferences in authors.  I like Borges because he comes up
>with an amazing idea and disposes of it in a few pages, where some other
>authors would take 3 novels to deal less well with the same idea.

Yup. I can't stand novels for that reason. And is Borges not a dude! Although
to any computer science oriented person, his marvel at recursion and the
infinities must seem a little quaint...

>Of course, I'm only Kinsey 1, so what do I know?

About as much as the Kinsey 1 writing this? *smile*

Kinsey 1, and falling... at least politically. For the past six months, I've 
been vaccilating between "Yeah, this queerness thing is me" and "Aargh! What
am I getting myself into?!" After about three months, I gave up worrying
about it; I have better things to spend my time on. This past week, though,
it's been more like "Yeah, this queerness thing is me" and "Queerness?
*shrug* What's it got to do with me?"...

I'm not going to get stressed about it, and I'm not going to mold myself
consciously (I'll keep an eye on me, perhaps). If I do end up straight... 
God knows I can never go back to being narrow. And *I* see no reason why
the friendships I've established in the queer world (on net and off)
should be annulled. Changed in manner, maybe; not annulled.

If I don't end up straight, then that, of course, is fair enough too.
Especially if there are any Crisco Kids and pots of honey in the 
vicinity! %^)

Hoping he hasn't just tied in to the old debate on how much of a supporter
you can be without experiencing oppression,

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