You're discussing this with the wrong person. Go and speak to Richard. I'm sick of hearing from you.
> > Richard has offered his email
>
> No he hasn't. Wacko offered it for him.
>
> > and still no one seems to have made the
> > attempt to discuss this with him.
>
> How would you know?
>
> The point that you and your friend here seem to have
> missed is that no-one gives a toss about there being a new
> translation of TdV. I'd have thought that a translation
> was one of the last pieces of the jigsaw needed to put on
> a show. It is, more or less, a mechanical thing that you
> could give to any lyricist who understands German enough.
> There's a shitload of more important stuff to get done,
> starting with the rights to the show. Since wacko doesn't
> seem to have noticed that Jim doesn't own the rights, I
> don't rate his chances of getting much further, even if
> his mathemetical abilities are better than it was when he
> couldn't add up to 6 million.
>
> The whole thing is not news. "News" is something like
> "Tanz will be on in Vienna in November". That's the kind
> of stuff to get excited about. The real fans here see
> such news and start planning their trip to the show and
> start buying tickets. Folk like you and wacko don't do
> such things. Instead you just whack off on something that
> 99% ain't gonna happen.
>
> Sorry for being a realist and all that, but if I can't buy
> tickets for something, and I'm not likely to be able to
> buy tickets for it, then I'm not going to get excited.
>
> Dave
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