Musical doings

I had a very theologically-charged guitar lesson yesterday, with a visiting guitarist who was giving a concert in the evening. After taking my technique to pieces and explaining all the criteria for rebuilding it, he commented that every time I pick up the guitar, I must take care what I do; because every time I play, I'm either building good technique or reinforcing bad habits. After a moment's pondering, he stated that actually, everything you do is like that, and changes where you're going.

Later I saw the show and, watching a beautiful tall dancer do her stuff, had a most curious feeling - as if in watching her I were a little shorter and stumpier, and my head were lower, and my shoulders higher; not that there was any shame in this, although maybe an implied sense of difference between myself and the more graceful and elegant dancer. It took me a while to fit the sensation to anything cached in memory - Gimli seeing Galadriel didn't quite fit, but then I remembered a Disney movie about a hunchback, based on a novel I've never read.