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Dear John:
Could you possibly be referring here to "bongo-bongoism" -
("the tendency to overvalue the objects of one's own inquiries")? :)
Cheers,
Martin Howley
Dr Martin Howley, Humanities Librarian, Tel: (709) 737-8514
QE II Library, Memorial Univ of Newfoundland FAX: (709) 737-2153
St John's, NL, Canada A1B 3Y1 E-mail:[log in to unmask]
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'Les meilleurs philologues eux-memes ont a se premunir contre l'illusion
de croire qu'apres eux tout est dit.' Henri de Lubac
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> On Mar 27, 2006, at 7:26 PM, John Briggs wrote:
> >
> > You know, it is probably a good idea not to get to caught up in the
> > phenomena one is supposed to be studying. I shall now be unable to
> > sleep for trying to retrieve a half-forgotten quotation about
> > scholars getting infected by the madness they were describing.
> > Possibly from Sir Peter Medawar?
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