--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> 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."

I doubt it. Intellectual snobs is as intellectual
snobs does.  :-)



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