Written in the winter of 2010, when I was teaching in the School District of Philadelphia. A lot's changed since then, not just my profession, but the good work of three and half years of psychotherapy. I'm not sure if I go to cocktail parties. And it's not because I don't want to. I like cocktails, I think; and I also love getting dressed up. And what is a cocktail party more than just a place to show off your personality, charisma, and wit as if those things might be thicker and more substantial than the air into which they are spoken. Hardly. But I guess that's where I am skilled. I guess that's why I wrote this . Because I do words. You call it rhetoric as if it's a bad thing, I call it rhetoric because it stands between us and the animals. Or maybe it's what stands between you and I.
I'm not sure if I go to cocktail parties.
I'm not sure if I go to cocktail parties.
I'm not sure if I go to cocktail parties.
Written in the winter of 2010, when I was teaching in the School District of Philadelphia. A lot's changed since then, not just my profession, but the good work of three and half years of psychotherapy. I'm not sure if I go to cocktail parties. And it's not because I don't want to. I like cocktails, I think; and I also love getting dressed up. And what is a cocktail party more than just a place to show off your personality, charisma, and wit as if those things might be thicker and more substantial than the air into which they are spoken. Hardly. But I guess that's where I am skilled. I guess that's why I wrote this . Because I do words. You call it rhetoric as if it's a bad thing, I call it rhetoric because it stands between us and the animals. Or maybe it's what stands between you and I.