Re: Anne Discovers GG Voice Character Generator!

[Bradley Lehman <bpl@umich.edu>]

At 12:14 PM 9/24/2000 +0100, Birgitte Jorgensen wrote:
> That is simply splendourful. I assume most of you have better things to do
> on a Sunday morning, so here is the fruit
> of my half hour of toil: a sample of Glenn Gould's philosophy given the
> full UV (Universal Translator) treatment.
> Sorry, no Klingon, but Maltese, which is derived from Phoenician and
> speed-blended with Arabic, Italian and English,
> sounds uncannily like Worf's native tongue. Perhaps I can convince a local
> speaker to translate this passage for me.
> (Other possibly irrelevant trivia in the hitherto unknown Maltese-ST
> connection: Malta's equivalent of Jones or
> Smith is "Borg"... although I have yet to be assimilated.)

Battleship grey.  Glenn Gould and his dog, Nicky.  Stokowski in profile,
his arms unfurled.  Flat-foot Floogie and Bach on Voyager.  Gould and
Grieg.  Roslak and Mahler with the cows.  Arrowroot and Poland water.  The
Mennonites at Red River.  Fire engine red.  Mozart purists, their eyes
wet.  Edgar Derby and Billy Pilgrim in Dresden.  Szell and the
chair.  Aleatoric Harry Truman poetry.  Monopoly at Maude Harbor.  Glenn
and Longfellow with Petula.  Double-double.  Poo-tee-weet.

- Inspired by ST:TNG, "Darmok"

Bradley Lehman, Dayton VA
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