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Jun. 15th, 2012 01:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incandescensI could live without four and a half hour meetings. (Even if there was a half-hour break for lunch.)
The weather forecasts are gloomy. I can hear the rain on the window now. Roll on, weekend.
Oh, wait, we've still got a Friday to go.
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Your patient must demand that all his own utterances are to be taken at their face value and judged simply on the actual words, while at the same time judging all his mother's utterances with the fullest and most oversensitive interpretation of the tone and the context and the suspected intention. She must be encouraged to do the same to him. Hence from every quarrel they can both go away convinced, or very nearly convinced, that they are quite innocent.
-- The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis
The weather forecasts are gloomy. I can hear the rain on the window now. Roll on, weekend.
Oh, wait, we've still got a Friday to go.
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Your patient must demand that all his own utterances are to be taken at their face value and judged simply on the actual words, while at the same time judging all his mother's utterances with the fullest and most oversensitive interpretation of the tone and the context and the suspected intention. She must be encouraged to do the same to him. Hence from every quarrel they can both go away convinced, or very nearly convinced, that they are quite innocent.
-- The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis
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