What is Idiocentrism? Born in rural Minnesota in 1946, John J. Emerson took early retirement in 2002 from an undistinguished career in the medical field to devote himself to writing and study. The vicissitudes of life, together with a considerable lack of people skills, precluded an academic career, but scholarship has been his main interest throughout his life. This site is not supplementary or ancillary, but is his primary institutional affiliation and publication forum. Idiocentrism is not a blog --I write very few topical or personal posts. I use this site to self-publish the fruit of about 43 years of study and thought. (Think of me as a freelance pamphleteer). This is my main publication forum (though I'm always willing to write for pay) and is also my only institutional affiliation. The last free money I received was in 1980. not especially for me (rather into being erudite as an end?) but interesting self-presentation online...? cf boidem, rw (who though yes are preety likeable to me esp).
This John Emerson was the least unpleasant voice in the comments to tvz post by mbh below, so I clicked his name - linked to a page on this site regarding Gautier's Hippo which did not pull me in except that end of scroll shows:

Bonus hippo poem by T.S. Eliot
Thorough annotation of the Eliot Hippo poem
The broad-backed hippopotamus
Rests on his belly in the mud;
Although he seems so firm to us
He is merely flesh and blood.....
(Eliot has been included for completeness, though he cannot be regarded as satisfying the
requirements of my paradigm.)

and well tse. and my recent enjoyment of I want a hippopotamus for christmas.