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On Wed, 20 May 1998, Keston Sutherland wrote: >It just isn't enough, given the gulfs between them, to > level both down to consumables and say, they both did the music thing, > which part of the cd rack shall we go to? > > don't you find this a little ironic? This is -precisely- what is > enough, > money is the levelling function, step into any HMV and you > will have to do > precisely this if you want to listen to either. How > do you decide how to > spend your money? And is there really as much > difference between Ira and > Simon A as there is between chalk and > cheese? Isn't this a little > wilfully, gesturally conciliatory? Why > be so? - Gosh, I've never been called "conciliatory" before, under any terms, I'm sorry if it came out that way... I don't think it's "conciliatory" to point out what seem to me self-evident diffences: most of the skills I'd use reading Ira wd manifestly be wasted on Sime, as a canopener in a bottle shop. As for the hmv/money bit - well of course, money tends to bring all products into a state of apparent comparability which, by and large, I don't find helpful - any more than buying poetry by weight - as a measure of what it actually does. What's going to happen if the chemist says, look, we're out of your prescription, but here's a couple of Frank Sinatra reissues, they'd cost about the same... Of course, what I should've said first off is that once you've staked out an area of comparability between chalk and cheese, THEN you can compare. Price or weight? Short discussion. Someone tells me why Ira IS like SA, or mozart like OBE then we've got a conversation. But on the whole, the differences beat the similarities. In other circles this argument might be called divisive rather than conciliatory... best, RC %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%