[lit-ideas] Re: J.S. Bach and Unchained Memories
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:47:20 -0230
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Quoting Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Amazing as it may sound (given relative Dutch and Russian performance in
> group stage), but the Russians deserved to win.
------------> All our victories are deserved; unlike our defeats ....
>
> Turkey, through injuries and bookings, can only field a very weakened side
> against Germany. Shame.
-------------> True, but it should be a very fine game today nontheless.
> Spain certainly deserved to win against Italy.
---------> True. Italy forced a specific kind of game - totally unaesthetic -and
they got it. (Did I just say that?) Anyway, he who lives for the shootout shall
die by the shootout.
> But who cares as long as Germany don't win (I mean credit where its due,
> they've lost two world wars but you can't help admire them for trying).
------------> I want to see them in the finals, but only in order for Russia to
defeat them. That maxim may not be universalizable, but, hey, we're talking
football here! (You call that losing??)
> Donal
> Walter is "Russian Orthodox"? This needs clarification.
---------> Contingencies of life placed my birth and subsequent upbringing in a
Russian orthodox family. I didn't attain rational autonomy until the age of 21.
I'll still go to mass once in awhile when I'm around an Orthodox church - Oxford
has a very nice church just N of town - but only for the aesthetics of it all.
(There I go again?!)
Holidaying in the sublime,
Walter O.
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 24/6/08, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: J.S. Bach and Unchained Memories
> > To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Tuesday, 24 June, 2008, 10:52 PM
> > On Jun 24, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Donal McEvoy wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Donal
> > > Gone mad with fitba withdrawal
> > >
> > The Dutch are gone, but the feeble-of-balance and falling
> > Italians
> > are out, buggered, damned ironically by the penalty spot.
> > Who now to
> > root for?
> >
> > The choices, for those who haven't been following are:
> > Russia,
> > Germany, Turkey, Spain.
> >
> > David Ritchie,
> > still hoping to see the Russia vs Holland game somewhere
>
>
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