Extroversion and ego at a UU conference

Monday, February 18th, 2008

I read a story once about a famous Chinese musician who was visiting the West, and was taken to a concert hall to hear the finest in European classical music. After the concert, he was asked what piece he liked the best.

– The first one, he said.

– You mean the Beethoven? his hosts asked, humming a few bars of the first piece.

– No, he said, the one before that.

Eventually, they realized he meant the period when the musicians were tuning their instruments.

Something similar happened to me at the conference I went to last weekend. (more…)

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