[Bards] What can we do to make things better
Jay Rudin
rudin at ev1.net
Wed May 2 06:52:08 PDT 2007
Gerald asked:
> Our community likes to think of itself as a nurturing community that
> encourages new talent to grow. We do a fair job of it, but from time to
> time we go too far and try to nurture that which just ain't there. A silk
> purse / sow's ear dilemma. And who, among us, wants to be the one to go
> tell the gentle that they really should consider accordion lessons? I
> promise you, I'm not struggling to be first in line.
>
> That having been said, how do you tell a person who wants to be a
> nightingale that they're a crow? How do you handle someone who wants to
> be
> a skald that a stutter of that magnitude is just REALLY hard to get
> around?
I dunno. In early Ansteorra we had a particularly bad example. Somebody
wanted to become a bard even though he had a clear, recognizable,
distracting speech impediment. It was so bad that he couldn't even
correctly pronounce his own name.
Furthermore, he was a stubborn, egotistical person who could not be
persuaded, so we were forced to listen to his works. Nobody was able to rid
the kingdom of this irredeemable would-be bard. What a shame that he wasn't
gently persuaded to sit down so we could hear the good performers instead.
Wobin of Gilwell / Jay Wudin
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