You must appreciate, Will, unless you are being uncharacteristically disingenuous, that your "here" is not an answer to my question as to where line should be drawn. A bit like the old riddle we all learnt in 1st year at school, "Where was Magna Carta signed? At the bottom."

I have seen real poverty, Jim. I worked in Freetown, Sierra Leone, from Dec 1990 to Feb 91, as British Council Lecturer in English Folksong at Fourah Bay University. I don't think you'll find poverty quite like I saw there anywhere in England's G&P Land — or Ireland's either. Awful thing is, one gets used to it much too fast. Only way to keep going and do one's work.

I know it's a sort of copout to say that comparisons must be instituted and lines drawn. Will [see above] has not really, with his latest 2d-th, provided a definitive solution to the 'where & by whom?' problem.

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