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Re: Tony Hillerman is a "one".
Re: Tony Hillerman is a "one".
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Posted by DEECEE on February 25, 1999 at 20:41:35:
In Reply to: Tony Hillerman is a "one". posted by johnny five on February 25, 1999 at 04:37:15:
> Tony Hillerman is a great mystery writer in New Mexico who writes
> about a Navajo 'Sherlock Holmes' character called Lt. Joe Leaphorn.
> Leaphorn solves murder mysteries by understanding the spiritual traditions
> of his people and through an intimate, tactile grasp of the details
> of the desert environment where he lives. > Some general points: Both Tony and his character Leaphorn are 1's. > The 1 is a perfectionist/judge chiefly concerned with perfection and
> avoidance of anger - angry virtue or rigid self-righteousness. Ones
> turn anger inward and expression of anger is a huge issue for them.
> They will censor their anger and express it indirectly through criticism
> and dissatisfaction toward self and others. Their center of intelligence
> is the gut, ie, fundamentally instinctual thinkers. > Ones focus attention on what is right or wrong in any situation, and they
> are always concerned to be 'good' to stay out of trouble. They have
> high standards and principles and think there is one correct way. They
> try to control their environments with obsessive compulsive orderliness.
> They have a strong internal critic with lots of shoulds and musts that
> are critical of self and others. They always think they know how it
> should be and how it should be done. Constantly moving toward perfection
> they are often not in touch with feelings, including anger which is then
> expressed as irritation, resentment, indignation and guilt. Ones are
> seldom satisfied with themselves and experience few options or lighthearted
> fun. They often procrastinate for fear of making a mistake; taking
> a chance is difficult because of their need to be perfect, to avoid
> imperfection at all costs. > The above description of the 1 is lifted almost whole cloth from
> "The Enneagram and NLP" by Anne Linden and Murray Spalding, so there
> should be relatively little dissension about the definition of the one
> provided here. > In Tony's many novels about him, Joe Leaphorn is often portrayed
> at his desk struggling to clear his endless police paperwork and
> is very obsessive/compulsive about it. Tony often describes Joe
> even getting the pens and paperclips on his desk placed just so with
> all the papers filed in exactly the right spots. Joe is always forcing
> his sidekick to describe crime scenes in endless, frustrating detail.
> He also forces the sidekick, Jim Chee, to fill out endless reports
> detailing every possible detail about where he is going and what he'll
> do on the investigation. Tony even has Jim Chee's life be saved by
> Leaphorn in a book called "Skinwalkers" due to the fact that, for once,
> Chee actually filled out the reports right and Leaphorn knows where
> to find him on the vast Navajo reservation during a dark, stormy night
> when he discovers that Chee is being stalked by a villain. > Well, this is all the time I have right now, but if there is any
> interest from other Tony fans out there I'll be happy to discuss him
> further. If you read the first ten pages of "Dance Hall of the Dead"
> I suggest that you will find plenty of evidence right there on the page
> for my contention that Tony and Joe Leaphorn are Ones.
HEH?
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