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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7301273, member: 110504"][USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER], I continually run into the same kind of thing with the myriad classes of earlier English hammered. Compared to which, the legends are a walk in the park. --[USER=87080]@TheRed[/USER] is the only one here I know of who's actually <i>good </i>at squinting them out. One consequence is that my English hammered will probably never get very far beyond the level of a 'type collection.'</p><p>The irony is that ancients of this level --which I never rose to, while collecting them as a kid-- are often easier to 'read,' for die variations, than the sort of thing that's ostensibly in my purview. ...I have to wonder whether, in both our cases, the relative level of subjective investment ends up getting in the way of what you might get by a more disinterested 'second pair of eyes.' </p><p>(Disclaimer: as a lifelong fan of Kierkegaard, I'm very skepical of the mere concept of 'objectivity,' other than as an unattainable ideal.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7301273, member: 110504"][USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER], I continually run into the same kind of thing with the myriad classes of earlier English hammered. Compared to which, the legends are a walk in the park. --[USER=87080]@TheRed[/USER] is the only one here I know of who's actually [I]good [/I]at squinting them out. One consequence is that my English hammered will probably never get very far beyond the level of a 'type collection.' The irony is that ancients of this level --which I never rose to, while collecting them as a kid-- are often easier to 'read,' for die variations, than the sort of thing that's ostensibly in my purview. ...I have to wonder whether, in both our cases, the relative level of subjective investment ends up getting in the way of what you might get by a more disinterested 'second pair of eyes.' (Disclaimer: as a lifelong fan of Kierkegaard, I'm very skepical of the mere concept of 'objectivity,' other than as an unattainable ideal.)[/QUOTE]
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