he didn't mention ERB as an inspiration, and talked at length about the Germanic and Celtic myths as inspiration
You were the one who said it WAS a figure of speech. You said that quite confidently. I personally think that he meant it literally, and was just wrong. But you defended it as "figurative", so I'm asking you to clarify: how so?
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In normal colloquial English, which you and I speak, when somebody says that somebody who did something “might not have bothered” had something else not happened, they generally mean that had that other thing not happened, the person in question would not have done what he did.
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ok, I don't think that's figurative or colloquial - I think that's the literal definition of the word. And it's that literal meaning that I am disagreeing with, based on my reading of his autobiography. For reasons I explained above.
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