Drugs blamed, in Stéphane Mallarmé's time - already

Hello, already E. A. Poe's imaginative "spell" reportedly was denounced as
having been "drunk in the dishounorable stream of some black mixture":

"Eux, comme un vil sursaut d'hydre oyant jadis l'Ange
Donner un sens plus pur aux mots de la tribu
Proclam�rent tr�s haut le sortil�ge bu
Dans le flot sans honneur de quelque noir m�lange".

Pardon St�phane's French, improperly injected into this, a one-language
element of the tuning set! What do you think? Would we "off-scale"
microtonalists, too, be (with a capital A),

"Angels that give popular words [sounds] a purer meaning"?

Dominique
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From [tuning] Digest N� 1837, Message: 16
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:03:35 -0000
From: "jonszanto" <JSZANTO@ADNC.COM>
Subject: Re: RESIST THE CORPORATE HOMOGENIZATION OF IMAGINATION

--- In tuning@y..., "robert_wendell" <BobWendell@t...> wrote:
> > Bob W.:
> > Whence comes all this paranoia?!?!
> > I find these implications impossible to sympathize with.
> (Sometimes I wonder whether some of us are consuming too much weed.
> That tends to engender such paranoia.)

a. You haven't seen the whole history of the tuning list(s); others
have endured more than what you've seen in a few months
b. Kraig can plant his tongue pretty firmly in cheek
c. It's not normally nice to accuse people of drug abuse when they
proffer strong, if strange, opinions.

Cheers,
Jon