-=> Ardith Hinton wrote to James Bradley <=-

 JB>  Like an old school chum, the constabulary insisted he
 JB>  not ride his "Take me home" horse after a night at the
 JB>  tavern, he tried the trip on his lawn tractor.


 AH>            IOW he obeyed the letter of the law rather than
 AH> the intent.  Did he honestly not get the picture... or did
 AH> he prefer not to?

I only heard the stories via third parties. (He was the younger sibling of a
family friend I graduated HS with.) When I asked about his well-being on behalf
of his sister, I let the topic drop after he explained how he wouldn't sleep
until he shoot the empty bottle off a fencepost. "'Nough said!" I figure he
realized the extent of his despair.

 JB>  riddles. (Have you noticed I'm bratty that way? B-)

 AH>            AAMOF, yes.  And of course I can offer a few theories about
 AH> it:

 AH>      1)  You have an older sister who takes herself a bit too
 AH> seriously... and you enjoy teasing her.  (That's an educated guess.

Then, I had my work cut out for me!  I think in my upbringing stressed what
I later found "I get paid the same if I laugh or cry." Ridicule
would follow if
I was taking myself too seriously. The youngest with two sisters... You figure
where I adopted the bratty part. [-|{


 AH>      3)  You understand by now that I encourage others to think for
 AH> themselves knowing full well they won't always agree with me!  While

You *know* I've dismissed your prognosis' to later realize at least the
validity of your assessment. I doubt I haven't adopted 99% as absolute truths
as further evidence or reexamination of the situation - or both - presents.
Hell, I might as well give your name to my MD as a source of diagnosis, even
though I don't know if "Mid-life crisis" flew, I'll give it another go and
mention you said so. 

 AH>      4)  You write rock songs.  Okay, so you're using metaphorical
 AH> language in your work & you're pushing the limits.  I can relate to
 AH> both....  :-)

Well... co-wrote, and I doubt anyone would call about a third of them rock of
*any* flavour. Even with my first real working band, we would include songs
like Led Zeppelin Hot Dog (Pretty hick-ey country) and later their song The
Ocean (7/4 and three-four/four-three Blues alternately) I can see why dad
lumped the tunes into the "HARD Rock" category, if only because
everything went
through a PA system. Still, the whole night would be a mix between punk to
progressive rock. (Budgie to Joan Jet... Hm... Even our "simple"
song in the
list, I Love Rock And Roll has bars of 3/4 for accents.) Anyway, my bigger
thrill today is from adding a Latin clave (SP?) part in order to astonish those
who couldn't imagine it would fit, than play some AC/DC song note perfect; I
turn up more songs from Mozambique than even *hear* songs from U2 on the radio
stations I listen to. 

 AH> opportunity to use left-brain detail-oriented reasoning
 AH> when we talk about rehabilitating other people's castoffs &
 AH> parsing sentences.  ;-)

That sounds like work! 


 AH> is reasonably literate in music, they will have some idea
 AH> what a coda is although the others around you may not.

Ask "Are there any musicians in the group?" or "Can we try
an accelerando at
the coda?" and you are likely to find two different 'snack brackets'. I've
worked with music illiterates that put me to shame regularly, but that was
*much* more likely to happen if they could communicate those ideas in standard
notation.

 JB>  I was inferring to


 AH>            [Mental gear change.]  Do you mean "implying"
or "referring
 AH> to"? A lot of people aren't clear on that.  I'll continue later,

'OK Mrs. Stickler, I was trying to say, "I was trying to infer..."' I might
have waffled/thought toward another word or even tried it in an edit, and just
missed my transgression. "Will you ever forgive me?" 

 AH> when you've had some time to read & mull over whatever your
 AH> dictionary has to say about it....  :-)

"No... Do I have to    perfect *all* the time?" 


... James
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