Punjabi two sided Dhol drum from Gandharva Loka Sir Peter Hall started the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre and the Rose in Kingston - our local Theatre. He was on Desert Island Discs last week and said something which I am sure will now become an established meme. Work brings work. Is this tautological? No. It works. But how about generalising. Does it make sense when we try other examples? Love brings love. Happiness brings happiness. Understanding brings understanding. There is a sense of reciprocity in these statements. Because you love, someone will love you, perhaps. Or because you understand someone then you have more chance of being understood. Or because you are happy then you will cause others to be happy. And yet the relationships between work causes work, love causes love, happiness causes happiness are not the same relationships, they imply a deep knowledge of the world. The kind of knowledge most proverbs imply. This was a subject pragma
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