{"id":3322,"date":"2012-01-17T22:56:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T06:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2012-01-17T22:56:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T06:56:58","slug":"tolkien-on-work-and-non-hobbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2012\/01\/17\/tolkien-on-work-and-non-hobbies\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien on work and non-hobbies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I absolutely love this quote from Tolkien. (I stole it from the <a href=\"http:\/\/oxfordinklings.blogspot.com\/\">Oxford Inklings blog<\/a>, but it&#8217;s worth throwing in the scrapbook.)<\/p>\n<p>When asked by a journalist what made him &#8220;tick&#8221; he answered:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t tick.\u00a0 I am not a machine.\u00a0 (If I did tick, I should have no views on it, and you had better ask the winder.) \u00a0My work did not &#8216;evolve&#8217; into a serious work.\u00a0 It started like that.\u00a0 The so-called &#8216;children&#8217;s story&#8217;\u00a0<em>[The Hobbit]<\/em>\u00a0was a fragment, torn out of an already existing mythology.\u00a0 In so far as it was dressed up as &#8216;for children&#8217;, in style or manner, I regret it.\u00a0 So do the children.\u00a0 I am a philologist, and all my work is philological.\u00a0 I avoid hobbies because I am a very serious person and cannot distinguish between private amusement and duty.\u00a0 I am affable, but unsociable.\u00a0 I only work for private amusement, since I find my duties privately amusing.&#8221; &#8216;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I absolutely love this quote from Tolkien. (I stole it from the Oxford Inklings blog, but it&#8217;s worth throwing in the scrapbook.) When asked by a journalist what made him &#8220;tick&#8221; he answered: &#8220;I don&#8217;t tick.\u00a0 I am not a machine.\u00a0 (If I did tick, I should have no views on it, and you had &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2012\/01\/17\/tolkien-on-work-and-non-hobbies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tolkien on work and non-hobbies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3326,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions\/3326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}