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Re: Xenakis Piano Concerto "Synaphai"
Reply #450 on: February 11, 2009, 11:57:08 AM
PS- Who are you?  I don't remember you.  At all.

You'd be surprised.

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Re: Xenakis Piano Concerto "Synaphai"
Reply #451 on: February 11, 2009, 11:59:10 AM
You'd be surprised.

You are either comme, or you lack understanding of the word "surprised", as it is never synonymous with "underwhelmed and apathetic".


Oh btw, my tongue got more acidic with age, like a fine wine.  It's a bit less brutal but much more refined; the flavors will probably even go right over your head.

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Re: Xenakis Piano Concerto "Synaphai"
Reply #452 on: February 11, 2009, 02:44:13 PM
You are either comme, or you lack understanding of the word "surprised", as it is never synonymous with "underwhelmed and apathetic".
I'm not sure that these are necessarily the only two possibilities, actually...

Oh btw, my tongue got more acidic with age, like a fine wine.
The first bit might be true but the second does not necessarily follow at all.

It's a bit less brutal
You mean less fleecy or foxy?...

the flavors will probably even go right over your head.
Perhaps that is what he might prefer, in order to save him having to risk tasting them - but that's for him to say, of course!

Anyway, what's any of this got to do with a certain work for piano and orchestra by Xenakis, irrespective of who may or may not "_love_" or "_heart_" him?...

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Re: Xenakis Piano Concerto "Synaphai"
Reply #453 on: February 11, 2009, 04:59:49 PM
You are either comme, or you lack understanding of the word "surprised", as it is never synonymous with "underwhelmed and apathetic".

No, neither.

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Oh btw, my tongue got more acidic with age, like a fine wine.  It's a bit less brutal but much more refined; the flavors will probably even go right over your head.

For some reason I doubt that. And I'd say that your tongue's acidity is hardly comparable to a fine wine -- as an appreciator of wine, I can assure you that there is a vast difference between wine of any reasonable degree of quality and mere spoiled grape juice.

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Re: Xenakis Piano Concerto "Synaphai"
Reply #454 on: February 11, 2009, 05:30:15 PM
I'm not sure that these are necessarily the only two possibilities, actually...
The first bit might be true but the second does not necessarily follow at all.
You mean less fleecy or foxy?...
Perhaps that is what he might prefer, in order to save him having to risk tasting them - but that's for him to say, of course!

Anyway, what's any of this got to do with a certain work for piano and orchestra by Xenakis, irrespective of who may or may not "_love_" or "_heart_" him?...

Best,

Alistair

Foxy?  I expect no less than "vulpine" from you, Alistair :O  *shakes his head*

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Re: Xenakis Piano Concerto "Synaphai"
Reply #455 on: February 11, 2009, 05:31:13 PM
For some reason I doubt that. And I'd say that your tongue's acidity is hardly comparable to a fine wine -- as an appreciator of wine, I can assure you that there is a vast difference between wine of any reasonable degree of quality and mere spoiled grape juice.

Whooooooosh :O  Right over your head.  *Watches with idle whimsy as you fall into the same trap you tried to set for me*

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Re: Xenakis Piano Concerto "Synaphai"
Reply #456 on: February 11, 2009, 05:59:09 PM
Foxy?  I expect no less than "vulpine" from you, Alistair :O  *shakes his head*
You can't always get what you expect; your suggestion would have had less connection with the non-existent composer of your erstwhile creation who was purportedly responsible for composing a sonata subtitled "brutal" which, I had assumed you'd recognise, was as much the point of that reference as was my use of the word "fleecy" in the same post and context.

Now let us essay just another try
To focus on Xenakis' Synaphai...


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Alistair
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Re: Xenakis Piano Concerto "Synaphai"
Reply #457 on: February 11, 2009, 06:13:27 PM
You can't always get what you expect; your suggestion would have had less connection with the non-existent composer of your erstwhile creation who was purportedly responsible for composing a sonata subtitled "brutal" which, I had assumed you'd recognise, was as much the point of that reference as was my use of the word "fleecy" in the same post and context.

Now let us essay just another try
To focus on Xenakis' Synaphai...


Best,

Alistair

How dare you insinuate that your nested, phoneme-referential humor would go over my head :O  I take great offense to this.  (that is a joke, but it is so extremely subtl even you may have difficulty cracking the code)

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Re: Xenakis Piano Concerto "Synaphai"
Reply #458 on: February 11, 2009, 06:16:13 PM
How dare you insinuate that your nested, phoneme-referential humor would go over my head :O  I take great offense to this.
I didn't, except to the extent that you personally might think I did, in which case the prerogative to take offence is yours just as it is mine to ignore it

(that is a joke, but it is so extremely subtl even you may have difficulty cracking the code)
Oh, I doubt it. Anyway, I now have to go and do something called WORK!

Bye.

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Alistair
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Re: Xenakis Piano Concerto "Synaphai"
Reply #459 on: February 11, 2009, 06:18:26 PM
I didn't, except to the extent that you personally might think I did, in which case the prerogative to take offence is yours just as it is mine to ignore it
Oh, I doubt it. Anyway, I now have to go and do something called WORK!

Bye.

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Alistair

Awwww =(  Miss youuuuu :-* :-*
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