Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit

At 07:30 15.8.2003 -0700, Stone Gordonssen wrote:

>>I'm afraid not.  When I was about 15 my father got the notion that
>>Tolkien and conlanging weren't good for me -- something about them
>>distracting me from "really important things" like school work! :-)
>
>Whereas my mother decided _the Lored of the Rings_ was Satanic, threw them
>out, and forebade them. I, of course, read them elsewhere.
Well, most Swedes being rather secularized that isn't common
here, but a friend of mine had parents who found Tolkien too
-- Capitalist!  Needles to say they were middle class Marxists,
but at least they didn't force their son to throw the stuff away.

>>Although otherwise a very nice man he made me put everything
>>related in a box in the basement.  Of course I looked for that box
>>while clearing out the house after my father's death.  I found my
>>Tolkien books in the same box as my childrens' books, but the
>>other stuff was gone.
>
>Sorry. Had a similar experience when my own father died.
Well, compared to the loss of the man the loss of the papers
was bearable at the time.


/BP 8^)
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