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Re: "A State of Wonder" - A Review



Well, yes, my first excursion onto a chat group....
To James Whiskeychan et al - an introduction
I have an initial tendency always to get somewhat miffed when I hear other people - moreover from civilised parts over the pond and the big water - who state they live in the middle of nowhere....I have just come back on line after a week of no communication [read "Black Hole"] as affirmative shopping of copper telephone wires is a favorite pastime in these Xeric [lit & fig] parts. Even just attempting to report the problem via radio to nearest neighbors 20 kms away is a gothic procedure.  This is a vast sheep and game farm with - joy of joys - a little meerkat (suricatta suricattus) as my particular friend - cf Sept National Geographic....he is a very very smelly little boy!
Ordering GG-isms ex USA or Canada with our Monopoly money is most distressing to economic health.  So be thankful that you are able to enjoy online shopping sans huge postage etc. etc.  But yes:  this review is tweaking me into dire economic action.
Whereabout is yr middle of nowhere?  Mine is pretty close to the geographic center of So Africa...I spent some weeks happily traveling around Quebec while on sabbatical in Yellow Springs, Ohio some years back but did not get to the rest of Canada 
A more general question:  is there a source of less costly issues of the GG magazines - I really cannot consider with equanimity handing over a weeks salary to obtain a single issue...
Thirdly:  the Sept Issue of BBC Music contains a short article on GG.  It is refreshingly sans the adulation that seems to be a fairly regular occurrence, but he has some rather sniping comments that I am not musicologist enough to comment on critically.  Any help out there?
 
Cordially
Danielle
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Sent: 09 September 2002 15:22
Subject: Re: "A State of Wonder" - A Review

 
Thank you for the review Matthew.  I was going to pass on this set since I already have both of these Goldbergs.  Think I will buy it now.
 
Question -  I live in the middle of nowhere.  I do most of my music shopping on-line.  James
 
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