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!
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Date: 2026-04-11 02:47 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2026-04-12 07:16 am (UTC)sounds like a great idea.
i should have done that years ago.
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Date: 2026-04-12 07:56 am (UTC)I think a lot of celebs do it- partly because they get so bored with being asked the same mundane questions over and over again- and partly because it's fun.
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Date: 2026-04-12 08:31 am (UTC)always tell the truth
even when i got me in trouble
no white lies
it was stupid
the youngest brother and sister
took from it the lesson that
truth brings pain lie well and lie often