Word of the Day

[vienna]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

[QUOTE Catfish] i will never be able to understand how this .. language works.

I'm not so sure: polymaths are pretty stuck-up buggers...'in the same vain' maybe!
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Ah, a pun! Very good!...

If you read the histories of some of the noted polymaths throughout history, you will find them not really vain at all; in fact, they were so consumed in pursuing their various studies, they had little time for acclaim, self or external. The impression of their being aloof or condescending comes mainly from an intellectual and, often, emotional, disconnect with the general populace occasioned by that which gave them their gifts; it is a price levied for their gifts or, as some would say, "The Lord gives; the Lord takes away"...


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