thoughts in chaos

long is the way and hard that out of hell leads up to the light. [john milton] the end is in the beginning and yet we go on. [samuel beckett]


June 26, 2011

Uninvited

There are many ways to show someone he or she is no longer welcome among us. The roughest, yet truest, is to show him or her the door and tell him or her to leave. The lowest is never to name the subject, never to say "I'd like you to leave", but to make our former guest uncomfortable in every possible way, to make him or her feel unwanted and uninvited without ever saying so, while doing everything within one's reach to pretend that nothing is happening.

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