Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: CHAT Conlangea dreaming etc.

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 11, 2000, 1:34
Sounds rather like my recent attempts at trying to relearn organ
before the wedding! I could get my fingers to wander idly; but my
feet sat there and said "And what do you expect _us_ to do about
it, eh?"

All the rest forgotten indeed... "Use it or lose it" was never a
truer word!

Padraic.

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, John Cowan wrote:

>Roger Mills wrote: > >> "Seated one day at the organ / I was weary and ill at ease / and my fingers >> wandered idly / over the noisy keys /...." (most of the rest forgotten) > >Note that while the author of these lines was a one-trick pony, the >composer is Sir Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert & Sullivan. > >-- >There is / one art || John Cowan <jcowan@...> >no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com >to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan >with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein >