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Florestan

Quote from: Elgarian Redux on September 13, 2018, 11:33:39 AM
Here is wisdom. When I am being frivolous, I do try to take it very seriously.

Seriousness is overrated.
"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "


Brian

Quote from: Elgarian Redux on September 13, 2018, 11:33:39 AM
Here is wisdom. When I am being frivolous, I do try to take it very seriously.
How Galahad Threepwoodish of you!

Elgarian Redux

Quote from: Brian on September 13, 2018, 01:09:36 PM
How Galahad Threepwoodish of you!

Faced with a comment like this, Comrade Brian, as a disciple of Psmith I like to ask myself - what would Napoleon have done?

Karl Henning

Quote from: Florestan on September 13, 2018, 11:24:50 AM
"It is easy to be solemn, it is so hard to be frivolous."G K Chesterton

Even when I have the odd quarrel with Chesterton (and I do not, much, here) he is wonderfully quotable.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

Quote from: Elgarian Redux on September 14, 2018, 01:06:30 AM
Faced with a comment like this, Comrade Brian, as a disciple of Psmith I like to ask myself - what would Napoleon have done?

Napoleon could have taken your correspondence course, sir.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Florestan

"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "