-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 07-17-19  06:28 <=-

 >  >  ML> fiddler is more along the lines of a dream or hallucination.
 >  > That's somewhat the implication, even on the movie...  
 >  ML> I've not experienced any but the musical version;
 >  ML> back in high school I read Tevye's Daughters but
 >  ML> have no distinct recollection of the details,
 >  ML> especially whether there was a dream scene in it.
 > I don't think I've read the story... a Jewish friend of ours loved the
 > movie so much he got the video of it and played it a lot...  
 ML> Like Sound of Music, it seems to strike a chord with
 ML> more people than you'd expect it to. And being a
 ML> product of that tradition, he was probably even more
 ML> affected by the whole gestalt (sob).

True.... and probably.... 
 
 >  > According to the script, it's symbolic of the precarious balance of
 >  > life between tradition and modern forces... 
 >  ML> That seems compatible with my idea. Not having had 
 >  ML> the script, the nuances may have escaped me.
 > It may have been more obvious in the movie version...?
 ML> Could be. Were there woozly camera effects and stuff
 ML> like that?

Not that I remember... you do see the Yiddishe fiddler balancing
precariously on the peaked rooftop, with somewhat of a manic grin on his
face.... 
 
 >  > As to boomboxes, that breakdown has continued to happen... it was
 >  > cars that functioned as boomboxes, driving through the neighborhood...
 >  > and now it's whole houses booming out the sound.... We can hear the
 >  > neighbor's "music" booming through their and our closed windows at
 >  > times.... 
 >  ML> See, the researchers and inventors who worked so hard to
 >  ML> make energy efficiency a reality didn't count on our 
 >  ML> infinite capacity to create waste and annoyance.
 > You mean transistors instead of tubes, and so forth...?  No doubt this
 > sort of thing never entered their minds,,,,
 ML> Miniaturization leading to more energy efficiency, so
 ML> where people used to dream of a Cray on a chip, you
 ML> now get a bunch of Fenders on a chip.

Definitely boosting the annoyance factor.... ;>
 
 >  > I expect that I'll not run out... but I'm not really thinking much
 >  > about it now... We've done our saving and collecting, and there are
 >  > cushions, even if relatively slim... 
 >  ML> I don't have much of a cushion, but then I've
 >  ML> always been a shoestring person.
 > Richard tends to be more the savings type... but he encouraged it in
 > me... It's rather ingrained now...
 ML> I figure if I survive past my money (a decade)
 ML> I'll have someone start a GoFundMe page for me.
 ML> In theory, I have a place at the Actors' Fund
 ML> retirement community, the catch being that they
 ML> think I'm already dead.

At some point, you might want to disabuse them of that notion... 

 >  >  ML> Beyond that level are
 >  >  ML> respected, eminent, renowned. I'd say Kreisler
 >  >  ML> was in his day those things, but calling him
 >  >  ML> accomplished is like calling Ralph Terry 
 >  >  ML> merely accomplished because he wasn't Whitey Ford.
 >  > OK...  You do remember that I have a talent for understatement...?  (G) 
 >  ML> There's understatement, and there's understatement.
 > OK...
 ML> AND THERE'S OVERSTATEMENT. ALL THE TIME. EVERY TIME.
 
Yes, Michael...  

 >  > Apparently, as in the hospital settings, rules are there to be enforced
 >  > only when the situation would otherwise get way out of hand....
 >  ML> Well, Rochester must be more enlightened than Boston,
 >  ML> where "standard procedure" is applied at the earliest
 >  ML> opportunity.
 > Possibily.... or I've had exceptionally good luck staying under the
 > radar when pushing the limits...  
 ML> Knowing you, that's a possibility.

I do generally become thought of as one of the medical team... probably
helps in the being tolerated there... (G)

ttyl         neb

... Never feed a cat anything that clashes with the carpet.

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