Well, one can sympathise with the attempt to find a refuge from the incessant bombardment and replaying of these stories, a lot of which seems to me to be ghoulish obsession -- what is the point of watching endless reruns of the same pictures, and the trickles of opinion and official information? -- but it seems to be (a) a fact of our time that we will be awash in this endless replaying; or maybe it is (b) just human nature to talk all these things out and get them assimilated. In any case, trying to wall these things off is futile, and in the case of music, folk music, and the arts, crazy -- if these are not plugged into the doings of the world, what is?

yours,

Peter T.