The Arts [as they call them] in general -- Maths and Science are, alas, a closed book to me; a lack of which I am by no means proud, but to which I have just had to reconcile myself over a long life.

My tastes in what I study (which of course is what the 'student' of the thread title does) are subject to a certain exclusiveness, summed up in what I call my "Boring Old Fart's credo", to which at age of 80+ I consider myself entitled, which states as follows:-

"BOF says that my Literature shall be Comprehensible; my Art Representational; my Music Tonal: naught else shall penetrate my attention zone."

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