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Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science by Robyn Arianrhod

Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science by Robyn Arianrhod Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/1/121/867430/0270121.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 the most adventurous and best, though also the most problematical. In it, Lear’s self- drawn caricatures— as an uncle, for example, or a baby— are paid special attention. Still, a self- drawn caricature is not the same as a verbal self- description. Uncles require nephews or nieces; an image requires nothing. Thus you cannot quite draw an uncle. Self- invention, moreover, suggests a level of control that even Genghis Khan may not have possessed. It is largely a flattering myth for educated audiences. Lodge appears to be on safer grounds when she endorses G. K. Chesterton’s advice that “we accept [Lear] as a purely fabulous g fi ure, on his own description of himself.” That Lear has become a purely fabulous figure to so many people has little to do with self- description. After all, most of us tend to self- describe ad nauseam, and no one pays attention. To understand our present attitude toward Lear as “purely fabulous,” we need to understand the widespread acts of acceptance that mostly vanished, large communities once made. These were communities in which uncles, babies, and “vast awful bulldogs,” all averse http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science by Robyn Arianrhod

Harman, Oren
Common Knowledge , Volume 27 (1) – Jan 1, 2021
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/1/121/867430/0270121.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 the most adventurous and best, though also the most problematical. In it, Lear’s self- drawn caricatures— as an uncle, for example, or a baby— are paid special attention. Still, a self- drawn caricature is not the same as a verbal self- description. Uncles require nephews or nieces; an image requires nothing. Thus you cannot quite draw an uncle. Self- invention, moreover, suggests a level of control that even Genghis Khan may not have possessed. It is largely a flattering myth for educated audiences. Lodge appears to be on safer grounds when she endorses G. K. Chesterton’s advice that “we accept [Lear] as a purely fabulous g fi ure, on his own description of himself.” That Lear has become a purely fabulous figure to so many people has little to do with self- description. After all, most of us tend to self- describe ad nauseam, and no one pays attention. To understand our present attitude toward Lear as “purely fabulous,” we need to understand the widespread acts of acceptance that mostly vanished, large communities once made. These were communities in which uncles, babies, and “vast awful bulldogs,” all averse

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Published: Jan 1, 2021

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