# My Commemorative Program *The Urth list — 4 messages, 3 voices, 17 Feb 2012* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### James Wynn *17 Feb 2012, 05:01* http://jameswynn.blogspot.com/2012/02/on-march-17th-im-planning-to-attend.html "Like Misfortune, remarkable gifts are not bestowed according to merit. But sometimes the piano does land on just the right person. And so it happens in this case that the person with an historically exceptional insight and ability is just the sort of person you wanted him to be." --- ### Marc Aramini *17 Feb 2012, 15:21 · in reply to James Wynn* Very nice article, James - well written and, in my opinion, a very good description of everything that makes Gene a unique artist. 50-100 is super short ... you have to be a Hemingway to fit the ample praise in that meager count. --- On Thu, 2/16/12, James Wynn wrote: From: James Wynn Subject: (urth) My Commemorative Program To: "The Urth Mailing List" Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012, 9:01 PM http://jameswynn.blogspot.com/2012/02/on-march-17th-im-planning-to-attend.html "Like Misfortune, remarkable gifts are not bestowed according to merit. But sometimes the piano does land on just the right person. And so it happens in this case that the person with an historically exceptional insight and ability is just the sort of person you wanted him to be." -----Inline Attachment Follows----- --- ### James Wynn *17 Feb 2012, 16:33 · in reply to Marc Aramini* Essentially, it's a dump of the things I always tell people when I'm trying to turn them on to Wolfe. > On 2/17/2012 9:21 AM, Marc Aramini wrote: > Very nice article, James - well written and, in my opinion, a very > good description of everything that makes Gene a unique artist. > 50-100 is super short ... you have to be a Hemingway to fit the ample > praise in that meager count. > > --- On *Thu, 2/16/12, James Wynn //* wrote: > > > From: James Wynn > Subject: (urth) My Commemorative Program > To: "The Urth Mailing List" > Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012, 9:01 PM > > http://jameswynn.blogspot.com/2012/02/on-march-17th-im-planning-to-attend.html > > "Like Misfortune, remarkable gifts are not bestowed according to > merit. But sometimes the piano does land on just the right person. > And so it happens in this case that the person with an > historically exceptional insight and ability is just the sort of > person you wanted him to be." > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ --- ### Antonin Scriabin *17 Feb 2012, 16:40 · in reply to James Wynn* That was a great read, thank you! > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:33 AM, James Wynn wrote: > Essentially, it's a dump of the things I always tell people when I'm > trying to turn them on to Wolfe. > > On 2/17/2012 9:21 AM, Marc Aramini wrote: > > Very nice article, James - well written and, in my opinion, a very good > description of everything that makes Gene a unique artist. 50-100 is super > short ... you have to be a Hemingway to fit the ample praise in that meager > count. > > --- On *Thu, 2/16/12, James Wynn *wrote: > > > From: James Wynn > Subject: (urth) My Commemorative Program > To: "The Urth Mailing List" > Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012, 9:01 PM > > > http://jameswynn.blogspot.com/2012/02/on-march-17th-im-planning-to-attend.html > > "Like Misfortune, remarkable gifts are not bestowed according to merit. > But sometimes the piano does land on just the right person. And so it > happens in this case that the person with an historically exceptional > insight and ability is just the sort of person you wanted him to be." > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ ---