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   From: omeallymd@geemail.com   
      
   On 2020-06-04 23:37:18 +0000, Stan Brown said:   
      
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   > That wouldn't have been nearly as dramatic! JRRT did like to play the   
   > martyr on occasion, or maybe it's nearer the truth to say that he   
   > sometimes exaggerated real misfortunes so that they seemed worse than   
   > they were. IDHTBIFOM, but for example I think he talked about his   
   > mother having been "persecuted" by the rest of the family, after his   
   > father's death, because she stayed Roman Catholic.   
   >   
   > This is not of the same order, of course, but I could see him   
   > claiming four lawns for "poetical exaggeration".   
      
   And you can bet he used a (non-motorized) push mower!  Can you imagine   
   his dismay in his suburban existence at the noise of lawn equipment and   
   their 'infernal combustion engines'? :-)   
      
   As for Mabel Tolkien, he went as far to view his mother as a being   
   martyr to the Catholic faith.   
   --   
   Bill O'Meally   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)