You know everyone should really read everything you post. I think everyone sees WV and assumes you're some backwoods hick. I have a sinking feeling youre a lot smarter than a lot of people on this forum. And such a way with words.
You sincerely and genuinely humble me, sir.
And it's a "good" thing. But now, tell me what I'm fouling up? *chuckles* That's kind of a difficulty for me, compliments. I hear them and hear a hanging "but", or "well you could do X better". So, it's difficult for me to accept or feel complemented. I'm working on it though.
I have a sinking feeling youre a lot smarter than a lot of people on this forum.
This reminds me of a characterization written by Anne Rice. In it she describes an "insatiable intellect, ever learning, posing new questions, learning and moving on with each new lesson faster than the last." I'm paraphrasing that a bit as I cannot recall all of it verbatim, it's one of her books about Taltos. The character Lestat meets a Taltos and sums him up as the devil incarnate.
I say to everyone, don't fear any sense of intellect you might perceive here. There is much given to artifice to a point. I'm sitting here with broadband Internet which can bring answers. Yes, I know how and what to ask, why too. I was taught not to let others think for me but to think for myself. It can be arduous merely to think constantly, simply the act of thinking gets painful. I might entertain illicit ideas, notions, fancies. I've learned not to write so much of that for public consumption.
Not everyone allows for others to think aloud freely. And I think far too much, imagine all the more so. That is where it stops though. I do not let the negative out to act, lest not whilst I'm aware or in good spirits. As anyone, press me to anger I might curse you, I might throw things, hit a wall. And yes, I still retain a right to defend myself. That aside this damnable intelligence I have is not used for harming others with deliberation. That isn't me. I'm not some devil incarnate, not a fictional character. I'm just an average human that feels average even to ants, fleas, bees, birds, boars, so on ad infinitum.
Apologies if in writing this I only prove out your estimation. I honestly can be dumber than a box of rocks at times. And I'm "dense" as hell too at times. I stay too much in my head, so balance by the doing with the hands, body. Damn, well yes, I'm a polymath. Happy now? *chuckles* Shh. Don't tell anybody. I'm just some dumb Hillbilly what runs around of Fall & Winter looking like a shaggy wild man, big foot. There you go, that's what you tell them.