The knottiest problem in contemporary etiquette is what to say about your friend’s bad art.
Jan 202023
The knottiest problem in contemporary etiquette is what to say about your friend’s bad art.
Some of what you say should not sound like something you would say.
One needs a lot of learning to wear it lightly.
Nothing bores in on a man like his own uselessness, and no job title, salary, praise or prestige will permit him to hide it from himself.
Where counting is permitted, ordering is not far behind.
Fiction, unlike life, is obliged to make sense.
With so much bad writing about, it shows a deplorable lack of public spirit that so few will do their own small part to end it.
Science began to decline when we began to debate whether some particular bit of knowledge merited the term.
“Have a nice day”, by convention, always closes an effort to spoil it.
Americans don’t read for pleasure; the books we are assigned in high school see to that.