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# The Giant's Causeway
- URL: https://robert.winter.ink/the-giants-causeway/
- Published: 2020-07-20T12:42:04.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-03T06:35:47.000Z
- Author: Dr Robert N. Winter
- Tags: 100DaysToOffload, Publishing, Dr Samuel Johnson, James Boswel, #wp, #wp-post

[James Boswell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FBoswell?ref=robert.winter.ink), 9th Laird of Auchinleck, lived in an age in which titles were grand and letters and diaries were even grander. In a time of conspicuous literary splendour, Boswell wrote perhaps the greatest biography in the English language of one of the English language's greatest biographers: [Dr Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%5FJohnson?ref=robert.winter.ink).

Yet for all its soaring verse, *The Life of Samuel Johnson* can have a most sanguine effect on a humble author who, at the end of a frustrating day, feels drained of simile. Thus today's offload puts me in mind of the following anecdote:

> BOSWELL: “Is not the Giant’s-causeway worth seeing?”  
>  
> JOHNSON: “Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.”

I trust tomorrow's offload will be more edifying, but for today... it is worth seeing, but not worth going to see.

Good night, and good luck.

[*A View of the Giant's Causeway*](https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1785355&ref=robert.winter.ink) by [Susanna Drury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna%5FDrury?ref=robert.winter.ink) is licensed under Public Domain.

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