A Stephen Fry quotation to share

[thrihyrne]

I've been reading and thoroughly enjoying Stephen Fry's second autobiography (the first one was such a joy to read and this one is just like it; his writing style oozes his personality, at least as far I've been exposed in his various shows and documentaries and the like), The Fry Chronicles, and he wrote something about himself that could have been written for me.

Which is not to say that I am lazy or unambitious in the short term. You might say I am good at tactics but hopeless at strategy, happy to slog away at whatever is in front of me but unable to take a long view, plan ahead or imagine the future. A good golfer, they say, has to picture his swing before he addresses the ball in order to drive. My whole life has been an adventure in hit and hope.

:nods:

That's me! One of the questions I anticipate but least enjoy in a standard interview is, "Where do you hope to see yourself in five years?" My honest answer is: "Alive, healthy and content."

Another thing about Stephen Fry is that even though people tell me I have an extensive vocabulary, I have nothing on him. I've been writing down and looking up words left and right, which brings me perhaps undue joy. Two words which have sauntered into my life (hopefully come to stay in my rememberable vocabulary) are: lucubrating (from Stephen) and crepuscular (I think from Robertson Davies). Words can be so delicious. :)