
doi: 10.3138/md.2.2.139
BERNARD SHAW WAS ESSENTIALLY A CRAFTSMAN. His own description of his job. was "that of a master of language." One of the many popular fallacies concerning him is that he was an original thinker. He was not. The original thinker gives his original thought-rarely more than one-to the rest of mankind, and bores them stiff with it. Shaw was teeming with ideas-other people's-and scattered them with exuberant vitality.
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