Dear Airline Complaint Person:
I would like to register a general complaint for the past week: yes, I could sit at my computer and file complaint after complaint every minute for the maddening frequency and closeness of the airplanes this past week, yes, yes I understand that the weather patterns mean that the planes have to come in lower and yes yes yes I do understand that there’s just NOTHING ANYONE CAN DO about this, yes I get that everyone is doing everything they can the ameliorate the problem ma’am yes, yes, yes, I do GET THAT.
And I get that you would prefer if I would just complain on the complaint line like I’m supposed to.
Well, I don’t prefer to do that. I don’t want to do it your way.
I want to do it my way. And this is my way.
Don’t bother to reply with some formulaic crap: I’ve written more formulaic crap in my life than you’ve probably ever imagined, young man or woman, whoever you are, poor faceless drone, no I don’t really mean that no I don’t but yes I do yes yes yes I do.
So there.
Thank you for listening. No I don’t need help. Yes I’ve taken my medication. No I don’t need help. No I’m not going to harm myself or others. Promise.
Most sincerely, with most gracious gratitude for your kind attention, I remain,
Xandra Coe
Annoyed Citizen
June 17, 2009
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Carol Bly, who
got me all fired up about connections between neuroscience and morality and art.
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- From 1700s Italy, "dilettante" originally meant "lover of the arts," but became a pejorative when professionalism took hold during the 18th century. A dilettante became a mere lover of art as opposed to one who earned a living from it. Today, the word refers to a poseur, or one pretending to be an artist. synonyms: dabbler, sciolist, dilettanteish, dilettantish, sciolistic Usage Examples “It’s better up here away from the phonies and the dilettantes. Here I can do what I want and no one comes to sneer. You’re not a sneerer, are you?” - Flowers for Algernon ‘There were no scientists in Stuart England,’ we are told, ‘and all the men we have grouped together under that heading were in their varying degrees dilettantes.’ - The Invention of Science Charles wasn’t a dilettante; he was serious about the breeding and created his own new lines of pigeons. - Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith source: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/dilettante
make that "annoyed second-class citizen"
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