Quote of the Day
From Peter DeVries, "Reuben, Reuben"
"Mopworth's first surprise derived from the belief that she was engaging in self-criticism. Nothing of the kind. In America such self-inventories were not admissions of faults at all but claims to complexity. Basic insecurities and feelings of insufficiency and the like were all degrees of intricacy on which the natives preened themselves; bandying the terms was part of courtship. This was far less developed in england than here, where women were cherished not for their beauty and virtue, as was once the case, so much as for the resonance of their problems and the subtelty of their needs."
"Mopworth's first surprise derived from the belief that she was engaging in self-criticism. Nothing of the kind. In America such self-inventories were not admissions of faults at all but claims to complexity. Basic insecurities and feelings of insufficiency and the like were all degrees of intricacy on which the natives preened themselves; bandying the terms was part of courtship. This was far less developed in england than here, where women were cherished not for their beauty and virtue, as was once the case, so much as for the resonance of their problems and the subtelty of their needs."
posted by unca | 7:25 AM
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when it comes to judging women, i pretty much just go with the waist-to-hips circumference ratio.
and i preen and pride myself on the complexity of my shallowness...
Ahem. Fascinating. And yet it almost sounds like something that could possibly describe people I know. Well. Who, you ask? Friends of mine, most likely.
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