are very careful to avoid sacrificing privacy. Second, the strict limits and caveats to the sociability rule indicate that even when we depart from convention we do so in a controlled, orderly manner. In the invisible-queue rule, we find another example of ‘orderly disorder’, and evidence of the importance of queuing, which itself could be another indication of the importance of ‘fairness’ (this makes me wonder if perhaps the traditional English reverence for ‘fair play’ is still stronger than the doom-mongers would have us believe). In the pantomime rule, we see again the precedence of
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