The many, dissenting voices of me, Part deux
A I have taken down her pictures, I don’t read her blog. Rigorous discipline is the path to recovery.
B Oh yeah? Haven’t I caught you saying her name once or twice?
A Never. No. Maybe. So?
B Don’t you still calculate what time it is for her, six thousand miles away?
A Maybe. But I don’t check the weather forecast anymore.
C I am furious; I am wronged; I have to be vindicated.
D How do you reconcile the need to be vindicated with the urge/resolution to be truly generous?
A I have decided that I didn’t want her back.
B Oooooh, decided, hey, very nice.
C I’m the one who should have walked away.
D No, for once you did the right thing: stay the distance, negotiate, jump over the hurdles; you didn’t try to run away when things got tough. In fact you may have taken a bit more unfairness than you needed. Not bad, for an inconsistent Gemini.
C If I had walked away, I would feel that I’d had a say..and I wouldn’t feel like such a sucker.
D Pride, it’s all pride.
A Never. No. Maybe. So?
C She can’t stand to hear anybody’s opinion but her own. She thinks it’s a personal attack.
D Oh shut up. It’s exactly what you do, this self-righteous, sanctimonious attitude.
C Never…
A Discipline.
B Oh really.
C Burn the pictures! Do voodoo on her ass!
D Grow up.
Michel Simon dans un musée du sexe ?
4 years ago
2 comments:
This idea is fascinating (though in real life probably terrifically painful, we do need to be more than one unified voice, I think). I wasn't sure whether you'd be happy for me to link it, so I just quoted, as the concept (and the phrase) had struck me and stayed with me for some time.
But now I've flip flopped and linked. If you aren't happy with that, just say the word, please Y, and it's gone.
V
It's fine, Vanessa!
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