On 11 Apr 2007 at 12:56, Raymond Horton wrote: > Andrew Stiller wrote: > > > > On Apr 11, 2007, at 8:41 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > >> But what I don't understand is why out of a sample that large, even > >> in morning rush hour there weren't more people who took a couple of > >> minutes to stop and listen. > > > > I originally wrote a long answer to this, but then thought better of > > it. Instead, I will simply say this: that a busker is a form of > > beggar, and everything else follows from that. > > > That is an excellent way of looking at it, also. > > David and I are both saying that there are good explanations why a > great many people ignored him. We think it is quite odd that > virtually _all_ the people ignored him.
Exactly! Thanks for articulating it fo pithily. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
