Tenacity is a labile quality. It’s invaluable if you're competing in a tournament, but it can easily turn you into a pariah. Social capital is a requirement for exercising what the Japanese call Bunraku or non-quitting spirit. If you are not a desired commodity then you are a pest if you don’t skiddaddle. However like everything there is a graduated cylinder which tells you whether your glass is half full. A stranger who has something to offer may find their perseverance rewarded. Then there is lust, the lingua franca of all social intercourse. Sexual attraction exerts an almost gravitational pull as does charisma. Willfulness is required, but not in the perverse doses that can result in ostracism.
read "Enjambment of Fallen Men" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star
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