“*Note: if any of the musicians listed in the sections above is a full-time participant in one or more ensembles specializing in historical performance or contemporary music, they will display fewer of the characteristics I have described above and behave, instead, like vegans. Not Hollywood vegans, whose activism is displayed in a glossier, trendier way, but the kinds of vegans you find hiking the Appalachian Trail or existing in any place called “Portland.”
― Declassified: A Low-Key Guide to the High-Strung World of Classical Music
― Declassified: A Low-Key Guide to the High-Strung World of Classical Music
“Type Three Species: qui in parvam domum moverunt (downsizers) This is not a species you’ll find in shops that sell new books, but they appear on a daily basis in second-hand bookshops, trying to convince you that their tatty old Reader’s Digest Book of the Car is worth a fortune, or that their Miller’s Antiques Prices Guide for 1978 is a really significant milestone in English literature. Because property is relatively cheap”
― Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
― Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
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