A modest proposal

[j minnich]

Ruthsings as follows:

>Well, there you have it.  But what do I know?  I'm just another lunkhead on
>aol.  Plus I spent two and a half hours rehearsing the Fourth Symphony by
>that bland and bourgeois Brahms the other night.  Yes, I'm an amateur
>musician, and we all know what G. B. Shaw said about us.  

I think that Shaw said something like, "the trouble with playing a wind
instrument is that it prolongs the life of the player."  This was posted on
the wall of a Palo Alto sheet music store some years back.  I'd like to know
what else Shaw said about musical amateurs though, having been one myself.
I like your Tinasky theory.  I, too, bit on the five dollar Tinasky sampler,
but never went for the whole book.  Other Tinasky anagrams which have been
posted on the list are, "SATAN INKY WAD," and "A DAY NEEDS INK."     -j minnich
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The poet is dead.
Nor will ever again hear the sea lions 
Grunt in the kelp at Point Lobos.
Nor look to the south when the grunion 
Run the Pacific, and the plunging
Shearwaters, insatiable, 
Stun themselves in the sea.  
   -W. Everson