Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 02-01-19 03:17 <=-

I've traveled in circles beyond my achievements
and pocketbook for most of my life.

Indeed. Envy is too strong a word for it, but I must admit an
attraction for that sort of an existence... dunno as I'd really have
been all that comfortable with it in reality, but it does attract... :)

One enjoys what one can and hopes there's
more to appreciate than to endure.

That's pretty much the same across the board... :)

Though there have been equally memorable
disgusting experiences.

Yes... then it might be more like a curse...

The way memory files off the sharp edges,
not necessarily.

Maybe... ;) If enough of the sharp edges get filed off.... ;)

Sometimes when only some of them are lost,
the objectionableness is lost as well.

A good thing to lose.... :)

It was that soupcon of high-school dropoutism
that she got right (she actually didn't drop
out until William & Mary, where she "majored"
in contract bridge before running off to get
married or something).

Hmmmm... :)

Well, she married well, her kids didn't
starve, and now she's (perhaps under my
influence) started cooking real food.
It's very, very plain.

Nothing at all wrong with plain... :)

Ideally, there ought to be a mix.

One can start with plain, and progress from there... :)

Unless one is totally satisfied with plain
and there's no incentive to progress.

I suppose that could be a hindrance... in that case, as long as plain is
also done well enough to be satisfying.....? ;)

Mixed Vegetables (Sajur menir)
[What sauce?]

For that matter, where did the water come from... ;) I'd figure the
sauce may have been generated from the onion and garlic (and whatever
they were browned in).... along with the cooking of the corn and spinach..... :)

It's easy to add or subtract water, as a
recipe requires.

As long as one knows what to do with it.... :)

formulation is, which is to be first, the words
or the music. Strauss's answer, which I agree
with, was "Primo la musica, dopo le parole" -
i.e., the music first, then the words.

I prefer the music over the words, generally... A now long-gone morning announcer on WXXI used to play "opera without words" regularly... most
of it was quite listenable to... ;) I'll admit, though, that I do
enjoy opera a little better if I see it in person on stage, so that the story isn't lost in the screeching... ;)

Usually the story is negligible to laughable,
and the words fake meaningful commentary or
self-consciously witty, with frequent breaking
of the fourth wall. Clearly Mr. Hoffmannsthal
was a bit big for his britches.

True... it still makes at least negligibly better sense when seeing it staged, at least to me.... ;)

I guess I'm too unvisual, and my suspension
of disbelief organ is defective.

And perhaps you've been more closely associated with opera, from the
pit.... ;)

ttyl neb

... Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

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