Coincidental magic

[Caligostro]

Could it happen that Doug just walks over
some fair or through a shopping mall or similar
and the music pouring from the stalls triggers
his magical talent? Unwanted, I mean.
This would make for some interesting side effects
since music is played almost everywhere public
nowadays ...
Cal

[zojojojo]

A) his talent seems to require lyrics, and background music is usually instrumantal...
b) when he goes bar-hopping with Lisa, he adjusts his 'tuneplug'. This seems to be a device specifically designed to keep exactly what oyu're sugesting from happening...
-Z
If architects built buildings the way programmers write programms, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
-Z, Post-reader at Medium
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If architects built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

[Bob Schroeck]

Exactly. There's an entry in the Concordance (www.eclipse.net/~rms/dw2conc.html) that explains the tuneplug and how/why it works.

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.