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Originally Posted by madformac
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Hehheh. Well, Gerald knows I like Lindsey even though he's a complete write-off!
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I do agree he is his own worst enemy. I don't think he can accept that possibly his best work is behind him and I think its stopping him from moving forward and getting on with at least something.
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Yes. He seems emblematic of Bloom's anxiety of influence theory, except that in Bloom it's that anxiety that spurs new achievement. Lindsey has an Oedipal conflict not with his father or his precursor but with himself!