Lifemanship Some Notes on Life

Potter, Stephen

ISBN 10: 1559212969 / ISBN 13: 9781559212960

Published by Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 2005

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Synopsis:

What does Lifemanship mean? Easy question to pose, difficult to answer in a phrase. A way of life pervading each thought and conditioning our every action? Yes, but something much more, even though it only exists, as pervasive, intermittently. How to live--yes, but the phrase is too negative. In one of the unpublished notebooks of Rilke there is a phrase that might be our text, ...if you're not one up (Bitzleisch) you're...one down (Rotzleisch). How to be one up--how to make the other person feel that something has gone wrong, however slightly. The Lifeman is never caddish, but how simply and certainly often he of she can make the other person feel a cad, and over prolonged periods.

About the Author: Stephen Potter was educated a Westminster School and Merton College, Oxford, where he took honors in English. A lecturer in English Literature at London University, he joined the BBC as a writer-producer, becoming a book and drama critic after the war.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Lifemanship Some Notes on Life
Publisher: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good