Re: More on the labor theory of value

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

some of my best friends are Philistines. 

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shane Mage [mailto:shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 7:36 AM
> To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PEN-L] More on the labor theory of value
> 
> 
> JD wrote:
> "Wagner's music is better than it sounds." -- Mark Twain 
> (paraphrased).
> 
> Mark Twain was making a perceptive comment on contemporary
> American standards of musical performance, not a philistine
> denegration of one of the greatest composers ever.
> 
> Shane Mage
> 
> "When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
> things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even
> downright silly.
> 
> When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
> things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true."  (N.
> Weiner)
>