It's the arrant selfishness and egocentricity of it that disgusts me. All that mattered was what she wanted: it didn't cross her mind that the poets might not find her attractive (or even not be heterosexual!), and she certainly didn't think about her husband. Everyone was simply supposed to fall in with her wishes, and if they didn't, they were "square".
They were younger than myself, and I think the young can be alarmingly callous, through lack of empathy with others, and a tendency to think with their knickers instead of their brains.
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Date: 2007-08-05 12:27 pm (UTC)They were younger than myself, and I think the young can be alarmingly callous, through lack of empathy with others, and a tendency to think with their knickers instead of their brains.