Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doctor, will I be able to compose symphonies when I'm deaf? Yes, you will! That's great, because I couldn't do it before! Oh, Pardon, I thought you were Lugwig. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 5:17 PM Subject: [Leica] Sensory deprivation > I have found this discussion of blind photographers and deaf musicians frustrating. > I keep waiting for the punch line but its amazing that nobodies telling > a joke! > It's got kind of a cranked up ultra PC thing about it which goes way > beyond anything resemble common sense, comes dangerously close to humor, > and then enters the bizarrely stupid zone. I keep waiting for it to get > smart and it never does with the exception of Peter Klien's statements > which I can recall. Maybe one other. > > The area's open to blind people are many. If they go into writing they > can recall the colors of their youth if they could see then. On a list > of potential jobs Photography is not on it. > Sorry. > Lifes a bitch then you die if you don't go blind first. > > This has an emperors new clothes feel to it. Or a "but > Mommy............" the direct common sense of a young child. > > Beethoven wrote half his output deaf. From the start unlike most > composers who sat at the piano to compose Beethoven composed at his > desk. Beethoven was a towering genius who did loop de loops around his > non competition > > The 9th was like Sergeant Pepper. When i came out everyone had to go > back to the recording Studio and redo all their tracks. Releases were > put on hold. Some tracks even done in other recording studios. All bets > were off it was a new world. In the Classical world it was no longer the > "classical" world. It was the "romantic" world. > > That women mentioned played percussion by standing barefoot but lets not > say the orchestra has generalized open positions open to deaf people. > There will be no deaf flute players, Violin players or any other > instruments except in the percussion section. > People have tried playing Violin barefoot before and they hand out > noseplugs but it throws off the whole section. Pretty soon the musicians > union gets called in. > > By the way no one talking about the person who could not taste or smell > anything who wanted to go to the chef school?! > > and the person in the wheelchair who one day got sudden interest in pole vaulting? > > I can give you a list of my limitations. Would not be short. A few I > could overcome with great difficulty if I tried. I try to stick with > what i can do or what i can reasonably learn how to do. > > > Mark Rabiner > Portland, Oregon USA > http://www.rabinergroup.com > mark@rabinergroup.com > Fax: 503-221-0308 > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html