very good
thank you, Dominic
L
On Mon, May 28, 2012 14:25, Dominic Fox wrote:
> I can imagine Elid fan-fiction, people inserting him (or an
> abstraction of certain of his qualities, bearing his name) into different
> scenes and confrontations.
>
> I like about him that he isn't so much "speaking truth to power" as
> politely refusing certain kinds of trumpery, even when it is impolitic to
> do so. He's the sort of person arrogant people call arrogant, because he
> doesn't indulge their arrogance with the expected complaisance. From one
> perspective this is socially myopic - a way to lose friends and alienate
> people. From another, his effrontery even when menaced - as if he can't
> quite help himself, which it seems he can't - is enjoyable and invites
> identification. From whom? Well, in modern times he'd be banished to a
> server room somewhere...
>
> Dominic
>
>
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Lawrence Upton
Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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