tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410716623228444076.post6319638955700330709..comments2024-03-14T06:20:59.015+00:00Comments on The Notion Club Papers - an Inklings blog: The next step in Inklings studies? The Inklings as group complementarity Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410716623228444076.post-24523675575521063952016-07-22T19:45:55.471+01:002016-07-22T19:45:55.471+01:00Very interesting! Not at all to blunt or deflect i...Very interesting! Not at all to blunt or deflect it, but it also gets me wanting to (ahem) group around it possibly comparable subjects for comparison - C.W. at the OUP, both before and after the move to Amen House (this, like the TCBS, immediately in the background of one Inkling - and more recently than the TCBS, too: query, why didn't Gerry Hopkins end up having more to do with the Inklings?); the Scriblerians (even a name-similarity?: before I associated Tolkien with more than misleading book-cover emus or heard of Lewis, I had started to love Pope, Swift, Gay - but still have never swotted up on the Scriblerians as group sufficiently); the Wordsworths and Coleridge (Lyrical Ballads is always appreciated as a momentous joint-effort) - and who-all else? (do those circles satirized by Peacock in various of his novels have real-life antecedents?). A field or discipline of Group Complementarity Studies?<br /><br />David Llewellyn DoddsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410716623228444076.post-6445390780693486272016-07-19T21:39:42.238+01:002016-07-19T21:39:42.238+01:00Bruce,
This is dead-on, I think, and it strongly ...Bruce,<br /><br />This is dead-on, I think, and it strongly reminds me of the concept of the Master-Mind as discussed in Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich.<br /><br />Hill talks about a Master-Mind as a group of people working harmoniously for a common cause (e.g., building a business), but he points out that any purpose may be pursued. This seems to work just as well for evil as for good. When the individuals come together fully, the whole (and the results) exceed the sum contributed by each member.Ben Pratthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11467569063226769498noreply@blogger.com