When a person says wonderful things to you and follows what sounds like loving praise with a big, fat BUT (insert excuses here)…you need to understand that they’re not professing love for you, they’re just trying to be polite while making space. Take a fucking hint and go find yourself the respect you never had. —It’s true love, BUT…
This article appears in Jun 11-17, 2015.
Ah, women!
Unless one is to be taken as a complete simpleton one always qualifies one’s assertions with a “but.” It is a standard locution of the reflective classes. But, and this is important, such standard locutions are open to interpretations of varying depth and perspicacity. But the degrees of such depth and perspicacity are themselves open to further interpretation. Of course, one thinks of Susan Sonntag’s “Against Interpretation” but is this not itself just a further instance of interpretation? I ask you.