Steve Schwartz wrote:

>Bernard Chasan replies to Karl Miller and me:
>
>>Yes, and how much better to grow our own food.  And make our own clothing
>>!!!  But that is not the world in which we live.
>
>How much better to have books read to us and interpreted for us, rather
>than to do the work ourselves.  We can take this analogy as far as you
>wish.  The question is, as always, where does it become unreasonable?

And perhaps, how much does something interest us.  I came to music
relatively late in life.  I had my first piano lessons in my junior year
of High School.  I started lessons so I could read scores to the music I
enjoyed hearing.

Karl