>>91
Oh God....I don't know if this is boring everyone else as much as it is me. But I suppose there is a sort of interest in seeing just how LAUGHABLY GARGANTUAN the next wave of lies and desperate bluffs that you people come up with next are going to be.
I apologize if I'm "tarring you all with the same brush" but I honestly almost NEVER hear ANYONE here or on Crackyhouse speak out in my favour - even in the face of a post like, say, post no 90 above which is one of the most absurd and groundless things I have read in my life.
I have no idea what evidence this guy believes he is offering for his claim that my remarks on "The Ring" are "patently and obviously" wrong. None at all, as far as I can see. Can anyone else see any? There really is none there. It's just an assertion: "You're patently wrong".
In fact, he doesn't even seem to have grasped what I was saying about that cycle of operas, even though he quotes me verbatim. I was talking about "the sentiments of many opera fans", not any hard-and-fast feature of the libretto, which is what you'll find in the "booklet" he talks about.
Most absurdly of all, however, he then goes to pull randomly out of the air the further assertion that ALL THE GERMAN I KNOW I MUST HAVE GOOGLED!!
Again, there's absolutely nothing that I've written in any of the posts in this or any other thread that would justify such a claim in the least. All the German I've cited is perfecly correct. The guy is obviously just letting fly wildly in the dark hoping that the person he is arguing with here will turn out, by chance, to be as much of a bluffer and a bullshitter as he is.
I don't think it makes me a "cultural snob" if I mention that there are few people IN THE WORLD that these random shots go more completely and ludicrously wide of me than me. I certainly haven't made a great success of my life, by any generally accepted standard of judgment, nor do I occupy a position within any sort of powerful or influential cultural institution. But I think a fair percentage of the people who visit CH and .71 are aware that
(a) translating from German, among other languages, is how I've been making my living for about ten years now
and
(b) during most of these ten years I've been practicing this profession from an apartment in the middle of Berlin.
Merovin, at least, can confirm the latter circumstance, as he's phoned me up here, at a central Berlin number, several times to annoy me.
I'm afraid that one post of such STAGGERING cheek and dishonesty tends to colour my perception of the whole "community" - especially when no one bothers to remark: "Yes, Alex, you're right. That is a really incredible pile of horseshit."