tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post4318117335535021193..comments2023-11-03T12:44:19.948+01:00Comments on Orwell's Picnic ~: Who does this sound like?Hilary Jane Margaret Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03771332473693479830noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-147436215944471822010-11-15T01:17:52.952+01:002010-11-15T01:17:52.952+01:00I am sanguine. Oh Hilary, will you still love me?...I am sanguine. Oh Hilary, will you still love me?<br /><br /><br />DeborahAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798650459454193768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-41468067907681481312010-11-12T21:43:14.649+01:002010-11-12T21:43:14.649+01:00I'm sanguine-choleric! It rules! I rule! I ...I'm sanguine-choleric! It rules! I rule! I feel great about ruling! Sorry for the rest of you. - KarenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-18852264524176981932010-11-12T11:22:12.962+01:002010-11-12T11:22:12.962+01:00I vaguely recall reading some years ago, online, s...I vaguely recall reading some years ago, online, such discussions in a book (from the 1920s?) by one Conrad Hock. Is this book the source of the above text, I wonder? <br /><br />(For what it's worth I would describe myself as pure melancholic, not melancholic-choleric.)R Jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-64077706645328412102010-11-12T08:10:51.308+01:002010-11-12T08:10:51.308+01:00I am sanguine, myself. I was talking with a friend...I am sanguine, myself. I was talking with a friend some years ago and she reckoned there was probably something in it - this "excess of humours." So, I'm sanguine and although I'm a woman (women tend towards anaemia) I am rarely anaemic. If I am, it's usually after an operation where there has been significant blood loss, but my red blood cells come back quickly.<br /><br />Not sure what the "black bile" of the choleric corresponds to anatomically. <br /><br />I wish someone would do a serious study of this to see whether these personality types really do correspond with the physiology.<br /><br />Thanks for the reminder. You sound like my husband!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-28577816632364590682010-11-12T07:31:26.462+01:002010-11-12T07:31:26.462+01:00"excessive self-criticism and criticism of ot..."excessive self-criticism and criticism of others, being dismissive or overly judgmental" Say it ain't so!<br /><br />I am a pure Melancholic: "He sees everything from the dark side. He is peevish, always draws attention to the serious side of affairs, complains regularly about the perversion of people, bad times, downfall of morals, etc. His motto is: things grow worse all along."<br /><br />hehehe at least I can laugh about it too.Mark S. Abelnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06692448528819277158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-6172958667927614252010-11-12T04:53:02.536+01:002010-11-12T04:53:02.536+01:00Being a sanguine-choleric and living with melancho...Being a sanguine-choleric and living with melancholics (oh, yeah!), my life is, well, VERRRRY interesting.<br />Thank God for the insight of the Four Temperaments...or there might have been a murder at the monastery...and I'm not kidding!!:<)!Fr. John Mary, ISJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13093937327145346752noreply@blogger.com