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[belamo]

"Whoever is born a loner will never find a company that is not a fiction."

Ortega y Gasset: Kant. Centennial reflections





I might have posted it yesterday on the WHYLT thread, but what the heckll.

[Harke the Boeotarch]

This person is full of crap, just like the OP of this thread.

[pat grimshaw]

^ Do you mean Gasset or Kant. I know neither.

[belamo]

^ Do you mean Gasset or Kant. I know neither.

If Hark! wrote "This person", he would be referring most obviously to himself, wouldn't he...

[belamo]

^ Do you mean Gasset or Kant. I know neither.

He is rather referred to as "Ortega", but nevermind...

[pat grimshaw]

^ I'm sorry, I'm an ignorant Aussie. I don't eyen know what the 'y' means.

[maxpowr9]

There have psychological studies that show loners make the best entrepreneurs as they do have to "go it alone".

[pat grimshaw]

There are psychologists studying how lots of gay men who want a gay marriage really want a screwable passive servant.

[belamo]

^ I'm sorry, I'm an ignorant Aussie. I don't eyen know what the 'y' means.

Generally, "&", but in the case of compound surnames, it is like the hyphen in Twinkengham-Mulberry or Mounstratten-Sherwood, although withOUT the same hype surrounding British counterparts-... just in case you were serious about it

[pat grimshaw]

... compound surnames...

I am fascinated by the compound surnames phenomenon which swept through the US and Briain and their colonies just obver a hundred years ago

Viz—

C. Montgomery Burns

F. Scott Fitzgerald

J Edgar Hoover,

W. Somerset Maugham

A. Conan Doyle

G Bernard Shaw

V Sackville-West (lesbian)

Robert J Baden Powell (pedo)

[belamo]

There are psychologists studying how lots of gay men who want a gay marriage really want a screwable passive servant.

Which makes them macho men after all, like any average macho breeder.

[belamo]

I am fascinated by the compound surnames phenomenon which swept through the US and Briain and their colonies just obver a hundred years ago

Viz—

C. Montgomery Burns

Him? .....

[pat grimshaw]

^

Yes, I included him because I didn't think many JUBbers would recognise

F. Scott Fitzgerald

J Edgar Hoover,

W. Somerset Maugham

A. Conan Doyle

G Bernard Shaw

V Sackville-West (lesbian)

Robert J Baden Powell (pedo)

J Maynard Keynes

J Carroll Naish

C Aubrey-Smith

C Day-Lewis

[belamo]

^

Yes, I included him because I didn't think many JUBbers would recognise

J Carroll Naish

C Day-Lewis

You won't expect, not everyone, but even just anyone to be familiar with every single petty scribbler and thespian ever, would you

[pat grimshaw]

I have no expectations; Life is a circus.

[belamo]

I have no expectations; Life is a circus.

Crowded with stampeding fearful elephants.