tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post8768464520401194628..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: Grandeur and curiosity - Michelle LovricMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-16805162140569890592017-01-12T18:04:58.202+00:002017-01-12T18:04:58.202+00:00I should like to know his name so that I may boyco...I should like to know his name so that I may boycott all his work!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-10935466409951025262017-01-10T22:53:33.671+00:002017-01-10T22:53:33.671+00:00His refusal = his loss. Sounds as if your life is ...His refusal = his loss. Sounds as if your life is a thousand times more interesting anyway (because you have made it so...)- your writing certainly always draws me in with its colour and detail. (For which, thank you!)<br />AND you live in Venice...., so all together - Pfffft to his arrogance - you win, on every count! xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-45160648421974254462017-01-10T19:28:59.408+00:002017-01-10T19:28:59.408+00:00I suppose we all tend to down play our own skills ...I suppose we all tend to down play our own skills and we need reminding we are relevant and have value, or maybe some folk need reminding they are human. If he dosent do the research why does he even bother? Just Money? Kudos? I paint when I have time, I tend to take a painting I like and have a go, the finished result is not always any good, but my skills are also developing, I would not dream of saying they are my pictures only my copies, how is getting someone else to do the research not just the same as a ghost writer?Ruan Peathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17999492027801288004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-15602054298808116042017-01-10T13:35:15.615+00:002017-01-10T13:35:15.615+00:00What is he interested in? If he doesn't do (or...What is he interested in? If he doesn't do (or love) the many byways and blind alleys of research, does not want to engage with other published writers - let alone unpublished ones, what does he do all day? I'm sure he has a housekeeper or cleaner and maybe a secretary (or a wife to do three jobs. Or is his attitude because he is - a man? Sally Zigmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07520579251842006765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-25284419624123879962017-01-10T11:13:24.182+00:002017-01-10T11:13:24.182+00:00The trouble with curiosity is that it can lead to ...The trouble with curiosity is that it can lead to your sense of self-importance being severely pranged. After all, with so many interesting things you didn't know anything about before, and so many interesting people you've never heard of - and the strange (even curious) fact that the more you learn about anything, the more you realise you don't know - well, how can anyone go on thinking themselves very important indeed if they open up to all that?<br /> As Sue said: Silly man.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-59636729323003291022017-01-10T09:53:54.075+00:002017-01-10T09:53:54.075+00:00Well said, Michelle! How rude of him.Well said, Michelle! How rude of him.Katherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031215564445403747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-76195438998821047912017-01-10T09:51:52.754+00:002017-01-10T09:51:52.754+00:00Silly man!Silly man!Sue Purkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084528571944803477noreply@blogger.com