Why did you feel the need to truncate this (so severely)? Just curious, as ISTM this falls under "illustrations of 'Dance as if no one is watching. Sing as if no one is listening. Love as if you have never been hurt.' " (such illustrations being Very Good Things indeed)
I don't remember why I trimmed it so tight, but looking at it I think it was because a) I saw a shorter message within the longer one and thought the shorter message made a nice bumper sticker, and b) I think I'd already added other "dance as if no one is watching" quotes to the queue around then.
But you're right -- looking at the source again, I see several different ways I could've selected which chunk to quote, including just using the sentence that this fragment is from.
When short and greying and shabbily dressed, dignity, even feigned, comes in handy.
Oh but wait; I am mostly dignified until I get silly or angry. A mercurial nature in our modern world makes one attempt an appearance of dignity. Not that I require it. It just makes me polite and believable. Others seem to want it. I know I can sing and dance. So I'm mostly set. Dignity as Coping Tool for humouorless idiots.
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jadine,
2002-06-07
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But you're right -- looking at the source again, I see several different ways I could've selected which chunk to quote, including just using the sentence that this fragment is from.
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Oh but wait; I am mostly dignified until I get silly or angry. A mercurial nature in our modern world makes one attempt an appearance of dignity. Not that I require it. It just makes me polite and believable. Others seem to want it. I know I can sing and dance. So I'm mostly set. Dignity as Coping Tool for humouorless idiots.