Catherine: I did all that at 65 and had a vivid sex life, too, Monsieur le Cardinal.
I loved all of these, but this was the one that I found most hilarious :D Go Catherine!
And Boswell is willing to present himself as the punchline to Johnson‘s joke in order to given an impression of Johnson’s conversation in a way few writers then or now would be willing to, from their first meeting („Dr. Johnson, indeed I am from Scotland, but I cannot help it“/ „That, Sir, is what I find a great many of your countrymen cannot help“) onwards.
Ah! Yes, this makes a lot of sense (and is really cool).
(he keeps writing memos to himself to be more dignified, more like his father or Johnson; it never works, but unaware, he was not).
This is also super endearing :D
And I see what you're saying about how Johnson as a character is so important.
Re: Random things
I loved all of these, but this was the one that I found most hilarious :D Go Catherine!
And Boswell is willing to present himself as the punchline to Johnson‘s joke in order to given an impression of Johnson’s conversation in a way few writers then or now would be willing to, from their first meeting („Dr. Johnson, indeed I am from Scotland, but I cannot help it“/ „That, Sir, is what I find a great many of your countrymen cannot help“) onwards.
Ah! Yes, this makes a lot of sense (and is really cool).
(he keeps writing memos to himself to be more dignified, more like his father or Johnson; it never works, but unaware, he was not).
This is also super endearing :D
And I see what you're saying about how Johnson as a character is so important.