Re: CHAT: JRRT
| From: | And Rosta <a.rosta@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 3:09 |
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BP:
> At 05:11 7.3.2004, John Cowan wrote:
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> >We must also allow for T's personality: "great but dilatory and
> >unmethodical", as C.S. Lewis called him.
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> I fear that the characterization -- with "intelligent" rather than
> "great" -- would hold for yours truly as well... Anyone else?
> Feels good to be like the great Tolkien in something, tho! ;)
That question risks generating a zillion "me too" responses (though
it is absolutely true that when one reads biographical info about
JRRT one does generate loads of me-too responses -- his nocturnal
lucubration for example). So perhaps instead we should assume that
the conlanger default is intelligent + dilatory + unmethodical
& instead enquire whether anybody isn't dilatory + unmethodical.
Herman Miller strikes me as unusually methodical & undilatory,
for instance. Certainly not dilatory, at any rate. (NB Dilatory
!= propensity to inflate!)
--And.