It is apparently not just a phenomenon of our present time … – pretending to know, acting accordingly – and not acknowledging the need to know [about] the fundamental rules
Spencer’s own books were widely read, or at least widely discussed, in the closing decades of the nineteenth century and the opening years of the present one.
(John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958: The Affluent Society; London, Hamish Hamilton: 45)
– the difference between reading and discussing, similar to the often provided answers, before the question is really formulated and understood. Doesn’t it remind of the tennis-matches Herreweghe mentioned?
COMMEDIA DELLA VITA OR PÁNTA RÊI'S FIRM GROUND 