Hi Roddy,
May this have anything to do with the fact that individuals born
and raised in any one place are less likely to turn their hand to
personal creative tasks? I read somewhere that a child who --
a) Is moved around at crucial (if not regular) intervals, i.e.
rootless, and thus having to address their sense of identity
internally rather than externally . . .
and/ or
b) Has an extreme preference for either one parent over the other
*or* an extreme indifference to both
is more likely to harbour and later develop a talent for writing,
painting, etc. Emphasis on 'more likely', of course.
I'm wondering whether a native to one city will be as unlikely to
become a poet as will a native to a rural village . . .
I'd be very curious to know how many writers on this list were
born and raised in the same place, up until the age of 20, say.
Isn't poetry more likely to spring from the mouths of mongrels?
Andy
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