Re: Beckfoot or not Beckfoot.


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Posted by Jock on March 14, 2008 at 12:59:38 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.

In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot or not Beckfoot. posted by Adam Quinan on March 14, 2008 at 09:08:08:

Let the discussions continue and you are completely free to comment on any ideas that you find unconvincing. (my emphasis)

Absolutely, I'm very happy for all my pet AR theories to be shot down in flames the moment they appear. I tend to stick my neck out in my posts. In my first ever post on TarBoard, now mouldering away in a shoebox in Ian's cellar, I complained about the excellent BBC film that had just been made about the SA series. I said that it focussed a lot on the Swallows, but ignored The Amazons. At the time this was such heresy that it generated a zero response! Since then I've posted on many controversial topics as the Hobbsian Hypothesis and 'Was Rattletrap a Crossley?' I've even hinting on a possible romantic attachment between AR and the prototype Nancy Blackett. (Ian opined that that particular post was on the borderline of what was considered acceptable!)

Now, TarBoarders thrash the ideas contained in my posts most dreadfully, and I am delighted. I regard this as 'peer group review' I am particularly indebted to Peter H for his stringent logical analysis. If I didn't want such ideas criticised I wouldn't post them on TarBoard.

But what I'm sticking up for (cf. AR's short story The Unofficial Side) is those poor little threads that start off with no promise. They are blatantly off topic, (Yes, I admit I'm guilty of these too.) or they rehash apparently familiar ground, or they seem unlikely to increase the world's knowledge of AR and matters related to the great man.

I see such posts under threat. They are like patches of rich boggy ground in the lee of some mountain top. Now along comes Peter H in his tractor with his plough and weed killer and soon the bog is transformed, only the best AR-related grass is growing there. But that's to ignore the bog's rich habitat and to forget that the bog fed a rivulet, which fed a waterfall which fell into a stream which flowed into a trout pool where some other AR lovers fished. And now the trout are gone!


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