Holla, und ich dachte, Du knallst die Lösung jetzt hin wie einen Klecks Kartoffelbrei.
Lass Dich vom 'liederlich' nicht durcheinander bringen. Damit meine ich keinen besonderen Lustmolch von Autor, sondern ganz generell das Unseriöse, das künstlerischer Betätigung in den Augen vieler Menschen anhaftet.
Also: unser Mann hatte mal einen handfesten Beruf. Den hat er dann aufgegeben, um später nur noch zu schreiben - auch für Zeitungen und Magazine.
Ich kann mal aus einem seiner Bücher eine Passage zum Verhältnis von körperlicher und geistiger Arbeit zitieren, womit denn auch seine Muttersprache verraten wäre:
>>>There are wise people who talk ever so knowingly and complacently about "the working classes," and satisfy themselves that a day's hard intellectual work is very much harder than a day's hard manual toil, and is righteously entitled to much bigger pay. Why, they really think that, you know, because they all know about the one, but haven't tried the other. But I know all about both; and as far as I am concerned, there isn't money enough in the universe to hire me to swing a pickaxe thirty days, but I will do the hardest kind of intellectual work for just as near nothing as you can cipher it down--and I will be satisfied, too. Intellectual "work" is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation and its own highest reward. The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer, is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the magician with the fiddle-bow in his hand who sits in the midst of a great orchestra with the ebbing and flowing tides of divine sound washing over him--why certainly, he is at work, if you wish to call it that, but lord, it's a sarcasm just the same. The law of work does seem utterly unfair--but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, also. And it's also the very law of those transparent swindles, transmissible nobility and kingship.<<<
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