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Eavesdropping a carol service at the Temple in London while slogging through the reading in the research library in New York.  

Gadamer has the notion of θεατρον as "angle on the action" -- the specific place in the Lycurgan stone theatre that the anonymous visitor to Athens found for  the festival.  Where he ended up in the theatre depended on where he was coming from, his social role, and his intentions for the festival.  And that place in the theatre, in relation to the angle of the σκενε, defined the experience of the play for them.  (The immersive roman doubled-theatre, amphitheatre, negates precisely this directional element.)

Even if one is the most questionable drifter who has ever wandered into the city, it is still possible to find a place from which, thanks to the angle, you can see the highest things, however far in the distance.  Take the time to find that place in each place you find.

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I see the government of Bulgaria has collapsed.  Nothing to do with me, was just wandering the mountains of the south for a month and a fortnight.  Didn't even pick up a newspaper.  

Onward.