Ewan Dobson - The Porcupine Dilemma

©Ewan Dobson 2023 SOCAN To purchase the tab/sheet music for this piece in .GP5/PDF format, please visit: To purchase the album this piece is on, please visit: Acoustic metal piece for 7 string steel-string and 6 string classical guitar. Guitars used: Custom 7-string jumbo cut-away Alhambra Mengual y Margarite cedar, lattice top Audio Mastering Credit: Guerri Davide IG @guerri.wav The Porcupine Dilemma “One cold winter&day, a number of porcupines huddled together quite closely in order through their mutual warmth to prevent themselves from being frozen. But they soon felt the effect of their quills on one another, which made them again move apart. Now when the need for warmth once more brought them together, the drawback of the quills was repeated so that they were tossed between two evils, until they had discovered the proper distance from which they could best tolerate one another. Thus the need for society which springs from the emptiness and monotony of men&lives, drives them together; but their many unpleasant and repulsive qualities and insufferable drawbacks once more drive them apart. The mean distance which they finally discover, and which enables them to endure being together, is politeness and good manners. Whoever does not keep to this, is told in England to &his distance.&By virtue thereof, it is true that the need for mutual warmth will be only imperfectly satisfied, but on the other hand, the prick of the quills will not be felt. Yet whoever has...