Game: This or That

[North Star]

Mmmmm I've never even heard a harpsichord GV... or much harpsichord in general. Where to start, friend?

Fabio Bonizzoni's GV - listening to it at the moment, coincidentally - is as good a place as any: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cddehw_WI8E
Andreas Staier's French Overture (and his other recordings on DHM, the Scarlatti in particular.) is another favourite. I also love Gustav Leonhardt's recordings on Alpha - in better sound than some of his earlier recordings, certainly. Celine Frisch's Rameau is a thing of beauty.

[NikolaiI]

Why thank you. And who exactly are "we'? I see thousands of people registered on this forum. So, "we" sounds like something out of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. That's one of my favorite films, so we're (oops) cool...


P.s. Lykren, by the way, had the "tact" to actually call me "disingenuous" on another thread, but I forgave him. I'm the forgiving type as well.

Very glad to know this, friend. And I am the trusting type. Also forgiving, well you get the picture. :-)

I suppose whenever I use we I generally mean the whole world. . . humanity in general; often simply to encourage people to feel part of life and society, &c, &c.

I don't think it'd really be possible to function with a little bit of looking for the good in people no matter what, or forgiving etc.

Anyway very nice to meet you, Pike Bishop.

[Pike Bishop]

Ukelele

T.S. Eliot or Ezra Pound?

[North Star]

Eliot

Ukilele or Mandolin (to own and play, not sit there and be looked at ;-)

Mandolin

Fitzgerald or Orwell?

[Pike Bishop]

Very glad to know this, friend. And I am the trusting type. Also forgiving, well you get the picture. :-)

I suppose whenever I use we I generally mean the whole world. . . humanity in general; often simply to encourage people to feel part of life and society, &c, &c.

I don't think it'd really be possible to function with a little bit of looking for the good in people no matter what, or forgiving etc.

Anyway very nice to meet you, Pike Bishop.

Yes, I get the picture, friend. You like to speak ambiguously and refer to yourself ambiguously as "we," which now apparently means the whole world...which isn't actually that forgiving.

So, I forgive your implications about my "tact," and I will seek out the good in you as well.

Anyway, very nice to meet you, Nikolail.

[Pike Bishop]

Fitzgerald, and that was an interesting pairing.

Thomas Pynchon or Don DeLillo?

[Lykren]

Eliot, but not by a huge margin. Though I haven't read Eliot for a while.

Green tea or black tea?

woah I'm way late.

Fitzgerald over Orwell. Pynchon over DeLillo.

So, tea, black or green?

[NikolaiI]

Yes, I get the picture, friend. You like to speak ambiguously and refer to yourself ambiguously as "we," which now apparently means the whole world...which isn't actually that forgiving.

So, I forgive your implications about my "tact," and I will seek out the good in you as well.

Anyway, very nice to meet you, Nikolail.

Humans are forgiving in general; as for the humans here at Lit-net, they're from all over the world. People generally put their best side forward when they're online, or anywhere else; so we see a lot of good in them here, as well as lots of other places. Yes, I was pretty much saying, "We are a nice bunch here," talking about all Lit-netters.

If I have offended you by my statement of "nice tact," what can I say but it's no big deal - look for the good and you will generally see the good.

[NikolaiI]

I love them both, very very much, black iced tea at a restaurant is really lovely. . . if I have any option of green tea, =I'll almost always take that one, instead, as it's a little healthier.

Windy or calm weather?

[Lykren]

Windy, though I might tire quickly of it. We only get calm weather here in SoCal.

Will You Please Be Quiet Please or Snow Country?

[NikolaiI]

Nice, cryptic post. :-)

Snow Country.

My first thought was cryptic post, my second one was movie titles or book titles; but either way Snow Country. hehe

Jupiter or Saturn?

[Pike Bishop]

Humans are forgiving in general; as for the humans here at Lit-net, they're from all over the world. People generally put their best side forward when they're online, or anywhere else; so we see a lot of good in them here, as well as lots of other places. Yes, I was pretty much saying, "We are a nice bunch here," talking about all Lit-netters.

If I have offended you by my statement of "nice tact," what can I say but it's no big deal - look for the good and you will generally see the good.

You didn't offend me at all; it was just an inaccurate implication and an inappropriate way to introduce oneself to another. As I said before, I forgive you, and it is no big deal. As to your idealistic view of people in general, i have no interest in dispelling it. We do at least agree there are good people out there and this is a nice forum. So. I look forward to future discussions.

[Pike Bishop]

Saturn...not even close

Fellini or Bergman?

[Lykren]

Oh, I meant, which book do you think is better.

Saturn by far!

Same question as before, Will You Please Be Quiet Please or Snow Country?

EDIT: Bergman! Fellini's great too of course. But Fanny and Alexander is a personal favorite.

still looking for an opinion regarding Carver vs. Kawabata.

[NikolaiI]

You didn't offend me at all; it was just an inaccurate implication and an inappropriate way to introduce oneself to another. As I said before, I forgive you, and it is no big deal. As to your idealistic view of people in general, i have no interest in dispelling it. We do at least agree there are good people out there and this is a nice forum. So. I look forward to future discussions.

It's all good, brother. No harm, no foul.