tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post5105953985366815414..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: DatedAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-38563877396191218652012-05-12T21:41:28.615-04:002012-05-12T21:41:28.615-04:00"His education had been neither scientific no..."His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely "Modern." The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and he had neither peasant shrewdness nor aristocratic honour to help him. He was a man of straw, a glib examinee in subjects that require no exact knowledge (he had always done well on Essays and General Papers) and the first hint of a real threat to his bodily life knocked him sprawling."<br />― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strengthjameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.com