--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > Not sure what kind of "conditioning" it could be. > > I suspect in my case it's that music tends to > > completely monopolize my attention; my brain just > > finds it inherently more significant than words. > > > > There may be one element of "conditioning," though, > > in that when I *do* manage to really pay attention > > to lyrics, in far too many cases it turns out that > > they don't seem to have been worth my attention in > > the first place. > > Just FYI, if one felt that way, and as a result > never paid attention to the words of songs by, > say, Loreena McKennitt, one would have missed > lyrics written by Tennyson, Yeats, St. John of > the Cross, Sir Walter Scott, Shakespeare, Rumi, > Homer and Dante. But none of those guys are > probably worth your attention. :-)
You appear to have gotten "in far too many cases" confused with "always." >