Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Bed



Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in The Fourposter

You make your own bed. Now you've got to sleep in it" is the country cousin of "we aim to please. Will you aim too please?"--a saying that's prominently displayed above some toilets. The latter is a computer printout of the pluses and minuses of the epigrammatic imagination. Concision and  compression rank as two if the greatest aspirations of the human spirits 
while redundancy and prolixity truly suffer fools. On the other hand, there's a whole world of abbreviation mongers who speak only in short hand. "It sounds like a plan," "being on the same page" and "at the end of the day" are the greatest offenders,  constituting a lingua Franca that's tantamount to a couple exchanging vows of eternal silence.

read "Pet Buddha" by Francis Levy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

and read "Ultimate Rejection!" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star


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