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Yet even more clearly may this be shown from the fact that the

Pleasures arising from one kind of Workings hinder other

Workings; for instance, people who are fond of flute-music cannot

keep their attention to conversation or discourse when they catch

the sound of a flute; because they take more Pleasure in

flute-playing than in the Working they are at the time engaged

on; in other words, the Pleasure attendant on flute-playing

destroys the Working of conversation or discourse.

Much the same kind of thing takes place in other cases, when a

person is engaged in two different Workings at the same time:

that is, the pleasanter of the two keeps pushing out the other,

and, if the disparity in pleasantness be great, then more and

more till a man even ceases altogether to work at the other.