Hmm...catnip toy? Oh, I'd want to be a complete hog and add in Fritz's meals and Wolfe's orchids. Sigh. He does have the best taste in orchids, I must say. I think he'd judge my tastes just slightly on the pledian flashy side (all those big blowsy modern phals, dear me), that I'm not making enough effort to follow up on the more obscure or wildflower-ish species. It would take some work to persuade him to educate such a plebe, too. If it was in a modern setting, with modern political issues, I have the feeling we'd end up arguing about it. I mean, you could retread Stout's comments on politics in the Balkans without even changing the words, practically! But then it'd get serious. You know, atomic weight calculations for the fertilizer injector or something. Or agreeing, which can be worse. Noisier. In our bunch, we use the term vehement agreement for items where people are all shouting furiously and it's not actually an argument. They're all bringing up corroborating points of evidence from different areas of expertise. "Yes! That's very true! And did you know this, and this, and this..." sort of thing. It tends to be a little hard on the nerves of onlookers, who may not realize it's an agreement. And Wolfe does hate shouting.
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Date: 2005-02-20 06:18 am (UTC)Oh, I'd want to be a complete hog and add in Fritz's meals and Wolfe's orchids. Sigh. He does have the best taste in orchids, I must say.
I think he'd judge my tastes just slightly on the pledian flashy side (all those big blowsy modern phals, dear me), that I'm not making enough effort to follow up on the more obscure or wildflower-ish species.
It would take some work to persuade him to educate such a plebe, too.
If it was in a modern setting, with modern political issues, I have the feeling we'd end up arguing about it. I mean, you could retread Stout's comments on politics in the Balkans without even changing the words, practically! But then it'd get serious. You know, atomic weight calculations for the fertilizer injector or something. Or agreeing, which can be worse. Noisier.
In our bunch, we use the term vehement agreement for items where people are all shouting furiously and it's not actually an argument. They're all bringing up corroborating points of evidence from different areas of expertise. "Yes! That's very true! And did you know this, and this, and this..." sort of thing.
It tends to be a little hard on the nerves of onlookers, who may not realize it's an agreement.
And Wolfe does hate shouting.