She was a remarkably clear thinker--perhaps too cold and too certain of her own rightness, but not someone to dismiss easily. Your point here is to say that she was not a Christian, I suppose. Indeed, she was not, and that changes nothing in my assessment of her.
Sadly, her ability to think clearly seems to have been accompanied by a relative inflexibility. I don't know that she could accept that others could look at the same data and honestly draw different conclusions.
The expression of a conclusion to a perceived situation is of no utility and of no consequence, if such a conclusion is incorrect and therefore moot. To draw upon incorrect conclusions would be to mire oneself in the Charybdis of futility.
Anonymous, "The expression of a conclusion to a perceived situation is of no utility and of no consequence, if such a conclusion is incorrect and therefore moot. To draw upon incorrect conclusions would be to mire oneself in the Charybdis of futility." Really? And MikeB says I can be tedious...
She was a remarkably clear thinker--perhaps too cold and too certain of her own rightness, but not someone to dismiss easily. Your point here is to say that she was not a Christian, I suppose. Indeed, she was not, and that changes nothing in my assessment of her.
ReplyDeleteYou're divining what my point was? You, who continually complains about my fleshing out the stories.
DeleteJust trying to help you out. You so often need it.
DeleteDG reminds me of her and her writing style, write 1,500 words to say what could be said in a single, simple sentence.
ReplyDeleteI tried reading her books but I found that when I put them down, I couldn't pick them back up.
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Her books do make remarkable book ends--once set in place, they never need moving again.
DeleteYou can take the novelist out of Russia, but you can't take Russia out of the Novelist.
DeleteI've read her two most famous books. It took perseverance but it was worth the effort.
DeleteSadly, her ability to think clearly seems to have been accompanied by a relative inflexibility. I don't know that she could accept that others could look at the same data and honestly draw different conclusions.
ReplyDeleteThe expression of a conclusion to a perceived situation is of no utility and of no consequence, if such a conclusion is incorrect and therefore moot. To draw upon incorrect conclusions would be to mire oneself in the Charybdis of futility.
DeleteI always thought there was a bit of the con-artist in her.
DeleteAnonymous, "The expression of a conclusion to a perceived situation is of no utility and of no consequence, if such a conclusion is incorrect and therefore moot. To draw upon incorrect conclusions would be to mire oneself in the Charybdis of futility." Really? And MikeB says I can be tedious...
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