Re: Trees reborn

ARONOW-BROWN LEAH M. (fnlma1@aurora.alaska.edu)
Fri, 31 Jan 1997 15:45:48 -0900 (AKST)

All who live, eat. All who play, kill trees or animals
for their instruments (unless it's metal). We must
respect the earth, of course, and all life, but unless
everyone si willing to stop eating and wearing clothes, we
must kill life to keep living.
I think the soul of the tree goes into the harp or guitar
or what instrument. This is one of those huge
philosophical dilemmas that we all wind up just living with
in the end because we want our steak and our leather shoes
and our harps of wood (at least most of us do).

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Leah Aronow-Brown
Dept. of Communication, U. of Alaska Fairbanks

May God stand between you and harm in all the empty
places where you must walk.
- Babylon 5

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On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Sustre wrote:

> Since all materials out of which we might conceivably make harps have have
> significant drawbacks, it appears we must all take up the "virtual harp",
> as popularized by our own John Benecki. He probably has a patent on them by
> now, the clever man...
>
> Will it ever be possible for us without perfect pitch to *tune* a virtual
> harp???
>
> -Sustre
> Seriously, I think all the points made are good- I just don't know that
> there's an answer....
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