[lit-ideas] Re: Poetry and Madness
- From: Chris Bruce <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 10:53:01 +0200
An old itch, but one i would still like 'scratched' ....
On 22. Sept 2006, at 20:15, Eric Yost wrote:
… the average amount of time that U.S. households spent reading and
listening to poetry during the yearlong 2005-06 TV season that ended
last week increased by three minutes, to a record of eight hours and
14 minutes.
Just for the sake of comparison (and - as I look into my troubled soul
- no doubt, to ease a masochistic itch), could someone please post the
*daily* average amount of time that U.S. households spent watching TV
during that same season?
(Should average figures for 'households' be unavailable, perhaps
figures for 'individuals' could be posted and we could conjecture how
to translate the 'poetry' figure so that some meaningful comparison
could be made.)
It is interesting to note - and further wonder about - just what sorts
of statistics are recorded and disseminated. Is there, for example,
somewhere (other than having the statistical survey conducted oneself,
of course) where one can find such statistics as:
- the average amount of time that U.S. households spent listening to
recordings of 'classical' music during the yearlong 2005-06 TV season?
- the average amount of time … spent in (amateur) performance of
'classical' music …?
- etc.
Chris Bruce,
in Kiel, Germany
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