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    03-18-2023, 10:19 PM
    elf replied to a thread House or apartment? in The Bilge
    If you can afford to not pay someone else's mortgage, by all means do so, as long as the timing and availability of decent properties work out. I...
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    03-18-2023, 10:01 PM
    And, of course, one can always use Apple's suite for productivity: Pages, Keynote and Numbers
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    03-18-2023, 09:53 PM
    I don't process many words, but on my Mac I use Open Office.
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    03-18-2023, 09:52 PM
    Google docs if you don't mind everything you write being online. Find a few other people to share your Micro$loth Office license with. Makes it...
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    03-18-2023, 12:00 AM
    Both meals are wonderful, but Lew, where's the sour cream?
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    03-17-2023, 12:06 PM
    It would be interesting to see a study of what sorts of people fall for these things.
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    03-17-2023, 01:41 AM
    elf replied to a thread The Fugue Thread in The Bilge
    And if you want to know a whole lot of scholarly stuff about it ...
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    03-17-2023, 01:39 AM
    elf replied to a thread The Fugue Thread in The Bilge
    In his old age, Verdi was convinced to set the Shakespeare comedy Merry Wives of Windsor. After Falstaff had been thoroughly ridiculed, his...
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    03-17-2023, 12:54 AM
    elf replied to a thread The Fugue Thread in The Bilge
    Here's one prefaced by some 19th C German recitative. If you've ever been in middle of a choir singing this, it's an amazing experience. The pedal...
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    03-17-2023, 12:46 AM
    elf replied to a thread The Fugue Thread in The Bilge
    Shostakovich wrote amazing Preludes and Fugues. Here is one performed by the one and only Sviatoslav Richter. ...
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    03-17-2023, 12:31 AM
    elf replied to a thread The Fugue Thread in The Bilge
    This one is very funny - trills piling up on trills finally cascading down into a heap of notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erbfaKl1Uqc
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    03-17-2023, 12:23 AM
    elf replied to a thread The Fugue Thread in The Bilge
    Considering the enormous amount of music he wrote, it's amazing that he wrote nearly no fugues, except that the French had no interest in...
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    03-17-2023, 12:18 AM
    elf replied to a thread The Fugue Thread in The Bilge
    One of my faves. You'll have to watch the prelude first, sorry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLTNyhpMEEM
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    03-17-2023, 12:10 AM
    elf replied to a thread The Fugue Thread in The Bilge
    Ironic. Couperin never wrote fugues.
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    03-16-2023, 09:59 PM
    Apparently he's well aware of that.
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    03-16-2023, 05:45 PM
    Any mode of transportation with a known path isn't secure.
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    03-15-2023, 05:22 PM
    elf replied to a thread Having a very bad day in The Bilge
    What you are experiencing is normal. The best part is that you are willing to expose yourself as you go through it. We are here. Your counseling...
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    03-15-2023, 05:04 PM
    It's an example of one of a huge number of experiments made during the 18th C to increase the loudness of the larger instruments of the violin...
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    03-15-2023, 04:42 PM
    "It's sort of the understanding that we need to re-imagine and re-do society in order to create hierarchies of oppression". I think she did just...
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    03-15-2023, 04:30 PM
    elf replied to a thread Moving sucks. in The Bilge
    Two libraries in my town have annual book sales. Every year I take 4 cartons of books to each of them. Presumably they have staff to determine...
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    03-15-2023, 04:23 PM
    elf replied to a thread Moving sucks. in The Bilge
    Worst is getting rid of the stuff your parents couldn't bear to get rid of.
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    03-15-2023, 03:34 PM
    Huge cumbersome object under one's chin.
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    03-15-2023, 12:25 AM
    elf replied to a thread Moving sucks. in The Bilge
    Books can be recycled. They're mostly paper. They don't belong in dumps.
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    03-11-2023, 08:56 PM
    elf replied to a thread We Need Joe(SoCal) in The Bilge
    If it's Joe you miss go to FB.
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    03-10-2023, 02:28 AM
    elf replied to a thread Wales, not whales in The Bilge
    Snowdonia and Anglesey are stunning, but way too far north for a day trip. Find a tour that will take you west to the coast. Pretty much wherever...
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    03-09-2023, 12:15 AM
    Idaho is doing what Dobbs was decided to do. The wisdom of this effort will be made evident by the effectiveness of it. How long it will take...
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    03-07-2023, 09:57 PM
    elf replied to a thread Hobbies as an adult in The Bilge
    Those are lovely. Maybe you know where I can buy erasers for my 60 year old Sheaffer mechanical pencil?
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    03-07-2023, 07:26 PM
    elf replied to a thread RV rental. in The Bilge
    5 weeks on WA coast 10 years ago. Went to Wal*Mart bought a cheap tent I could stand up in. Packed it up with Thermarest pad and bag etc. Flew to...
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    03-04-2023, 01:22 PM
    Rain. You people who have to run out and get snow blowers - can't you just enjoy the snow on a weekend, and wait for it to melt away? If you...
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    03-04-2023, 10:58 AM
    elf replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    Been listening to this for the last few weeks. If you want to seriously consider the assets and liabilities of religion in western culture, go here:...
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A society predicated on the assumption that everyone in it should want to get rich is not well situated to become either ethical or imaginative.

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