Overheard a conversation today about life in one of the old fashioned asylums.
The patients attended ‘musical exercise’ once a week. Attendance was ‘voluntary’ I’m sure. During this exercise they would repeat the same set of movements to the same music, each and every week. Month after month after month.
Then it was announced that there was going to be a concert at the hospital.
You can see where this is going to go …
Many patients attend the concert. Eventually the inevitable happens. The ‘exercise music’ is played. About one third of the audience breaks into musical movements.
There is a moral there somewhere.
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