Tricky

[poliphilo]

 There were six of us talking at cross purposes with raised voices. D started it. He's a bag of nerves, afraid of his own shadow and with a propensity to project that shadow onto other people, but if I'm honest I must admit that a Situation like this has many makers- and I was one of them. The Quakerly thing would have been to say, "Let's sit down and work through the issues calmly, speaking one at a time"- but the Quaker way calls for superhuman levels of patience and forebearance and we're only human....

I think, to comfort myself, of the Pauline epistles and the Book of Revelation. Seems like those early Christians weren't so very Quakerly either. Paul certainly had a gob on him- and John the Divine was even worse.

The upshot was that D and his partner departed in clouds of dust and probably won't come back. They were tricky people to deal with, but gifted with it- and it's a terrible pity. 

He's a musician. I watched one of his YouTube vids yesterday. You won't have heard of him but, yes, he's gifted....

Comments

[cmcmck]

Luke appears to me to have been the gentle one.

[poliphilo]

Yes. His gospel is the friendliest.

[paserbyp]

For tricky people as musicians should be audience which will please them as gifted genius due to fact sometimes narcissistic behavior is usual unfortunately…

[poliphilo]

There's such thing as "the artistic temperament".

People wax sentimental about Van Gogh but he was a nightmare to live with.

[paserbyp]

The artistic temperament just to cut off his ear is only mental disease I guess…

[poliphilo]

I believe that just before he cut off his ear lobe he'd threatened Gauguin with an open razor. He wasn't an easy person to be around.