Such natives are frequently modest in their own account of themselves and surrounded by people who are not. There is usually a benefactor: an uncle who paid the fees, a professor who opened a door, a partner with money or connections. There is also, in due course, someone whose expansiveness costs the native a great deal, since the same door admits both. The lesson is slow because the early experiences are pleasant, and nobody examines a gift while it is still arriving.
The native's own excess appears in bursts and is then denied. Long stretches of careful economy end in a week of spending that surprises the household. Beliefs are the same: a period of quiet scepticism gives way to a sudden and total enthusiasm for a cause, a teacher or a country, held with the fervour of a convert and abandoned two years later. Argument brings out the opposition plainly. The native takes the expansive position against a cautious opponent and the cautious one against an expansive one, and means both.
Holding both ends means becoming one's own patron, which usually requires the loss of an actual one. After that the native discovers they can make the large gesture themselves, on their own account and within their own means, and the procession of extravagant others thins out considerably. Such people make good trustees, deans and executors, being able to feel the pull of a grand scheme and still sign the smaller cheque. What they must give up is the pleasant habit of admiring generosity from a safe distance.
What It Gives
- ◆benefactors drawn in early
- ◆both caution and scale understood
- ◆sound stewardship of others' money
- ◆grand schemes weighed before signing
What It Costs
- ◆own generosity credited to others
- ◆economy broken by sudden spending
- ◆enthusiasms taken up and dropped whole
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