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Quote of the day: Samuel Butler’s solution to a boring concert

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"To know whether you are enjoying a piece of music or not you must see whether you find yourself looking at the advertisements of Pears’ soap at the end of the programme." The note-books of Samuel Butler, 1912.


English novelist Samuel Butler of The Way of All Flesh fame had the above solution for getting through the boring bits at a concert.   Perhaps with a smart phone he could have looked at this.

 


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