On 04-05-97 MICHAEL DOYLE wrote to ALL... 
 
 MD> Ak! I'm gagging!  I can't take it anymore!  What the HELL is 
     wrong with discussing prog-rock MUSICIANS and the music they 
     make?  What is wrong with this guy? 
 
        George is OK, he's just a bit eccentric, which most of us 
        are, though in different ways. You just have to learn how 
        to take him. Took me a while. In there somewhere is a 
        progger (hey, he's into Quartermass, so he's got taste). 
        It's just that the progger in him needs to assert itself 
        in his own way and at his own pace. My advice is wait and 
        see. If you don't like the particular game he's playing 
        at any particular time (e.g. devil's advocate) then sit 
        out that round and wait until he plays a new one more to 
        your liking. Trust me, there is very little ever new in 
        cyberspace, patterns repeat, we've been here before. 
 
        It's a little known fact that I started out on this echo 
        by lambasting the moderator for declaring XTC off topic. 
        Honest. (My reasoning was that Andy Partridge had 
        produced tracks for Peter Blegvad ex- Henry Cow/Slapp 
        Happy). And now, in the course of time, I have become a 
        moderator who would willingly declare for all the world 
        to see that XTC is off topic for this echo.  Yin. Yang. 
        Everything is its opposite. Or, as Daevid Allen would put 
        it, "You are I, and I are George." 
 
        :-) 
 
                                Cheers, 
                                Kenneth 
 
 
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