Nosce Ipsum
Apr. 11th, 2026 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo A friend copies me into an email message beginning "All my life has been about....."
How does one respond to something like that? I favour, "Duly noted."
Know oneself? Oh absolutely. But be chary of sharing that knowledge. Mainly because you're likely to become a bore.
Anyway, other people will already have their opinion of you. Nothing you say is likely to change it.
And they will have noticed things you have always carefully skirted round.
A great line from Touch of Evil. Marlene Dietrich gets to deliver it. I assume Orson Welles wrote it. "What does it matter what you say about people? He was some kind of a man....."
A new friend says, "Don't ask me what I do, or how old I am or why I never married- because I'll simply make thing up....."
Now that's the spirit!
How does one respond to something like that? I favour, "Duly noted."
Know oneself? Oh absolutely. But be chary of sharing that knowledge. Mainly because you're likely to become a bore.
Anyway, other people will already have their opinion of you. Nothing you say is likely to change it.
And they will have noticed things you have always carefully skirted round.
A great line from Touch of Evil. Marlene Dietrich gets to deliver it. I assume Orson Welles wrote it. "What does it matter what you say about people? He was some kind of a man....."
A new friend says, "Don't ask me what I do, or how old I am or why I never married- because I'll simply make thing up....."
Now that's the spirit!
