I do that every time I use any of my Old Text from the very rough first draft. They still get put through the ringer, but the fact that even the rough draft took ages to write back then, and therefore makes this mostly trash text worth saving used to make it very hard to cull.
Igor Livramento July 6, I mean, Don Quijote and Tristam Shandy are major examples from ages ago that do well in showing us the gears at work rather than hiding them.
The thing is how well-played this game becomes on such texts. It all starts with those early Greek and Roman rhetoric treatises. Chris July 7, I mean, Shakespearean fools habitually broke the fourth wall and — indeed, much as ancient Greek choruses — revealed certain mechanisms to the audience, steering them in the intended direction which was sometimes a deception, all part of the creative interplay of audience manipulation.
Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt July 7, But anything that makes your brain have to restart, and reinput the data, can do the trick. Igor Livramento July 7, I mean, think of education: our history classes drag on for a long time following the European highs and lows and a bunch of wars and then suddenly, out of nowhere, some adventurous Europeans travelling overseas and writing letters about naked people and their weird behaviors, and bam, that is our beginning. So I feel literally in my personal experience that my family was created ex nihil, out of thin air, it simply sprouted into existence suddenly, because written history in itself is already the privileging of a culture over another.
But with all this in mind, you can tell reality can get pretty magical for us Latin Americans. I mean, it seems magical to outsiders, but it is just our reality.
I strongly recommend his book, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency, it is fairly accessible in its presentation and easy to follow the reasoning, whilst presenting a deep and thorough argument. Chris July 8, If I may offer a somewhat tangential comment to this very interesting discussion, I wonder to which extent the presence of a unified, clearly defined, homogeneous cultural history can also be an obstacle. Take Greece, for example. And yet, in a bizarre exercise in psychological self-flagellation, many modern Greeks have incredible delusions of grandeur, without realizing that these delusions keep them from producing any kind of advancement of their own.
The modern Finnish people are the exact opposite of Greeks: self-deprecating, too modest, very quiet. Meanwhile, without the weight of an imposing past, Finland consistently tops every metric related to societal well-being, happiness, personal improvement, and what not, on top of being a technological leader.
Frankenstein and Dracula lead parallel lives. They are indivisible, because complementary, figures; the two horrible faces of a single society, its extremes : the disfigured wretch and the ruthless proprietor.
The worker and capital. The literature of terror is born precisely out of the terror of a split society and out of the desire to heal it. It is for just this reason that Dracula and Frankenstein, with rare exceptions, do not appear together. The threat would be too great, and this literature, having produced terror, must also erase it and restore peace. It must restore the broken equilibrium — giving the illusion of being able to stop history — because the monster expresses the anxiety that the future will be monstrous.
His antagonist — the enemy of the monster — will always be, by contrast, a representative of the present, a distillation of complacent nineteenth-century mediocrity: nationalistic, stupid, superstitious, philistine, impotent, self-satisfied. But this does not show through. Hi Jill. I dont think the agent was wrong for contacting you. She should have been more honest about the home, but at least it gave you an opportunity to get in front of your clients again and perhaps bond a little more.
Just doing something sometimes causes a reaction which then turns to success in real estate. While I am not an agent, I think that she was right in contacting you, BUT, she might have held back a bit on the adjectives. Jill, Personally, I like to under promise and over deliver.
I would have contacted you, but mentioned that if the buyers have some flexibility and imagination, and money for remodelling, the space might work.
But, hey that's just me. I hate to waste time, and try to prevent others from wasting their time. Common courtesy. No Jill, it's not okay that she wasn't honest We all see things differently, although it sounds as though she could have given you a little hint about it's condition This is shocking!!!
Someone mislead someone on the Multiple Listing Service. I am not being snide here. But, everyone has a different intrepretation, especially when a commission is at stake. She was doing the best she could to get potential buyers in the door and she used you to do it. And, she will do it again and again. But, don't fault her for it.
She was doing right by her seller to try to drum up a buyer. Que Sera, Sera. Sheila - I never said she was dishonest. I much prefer to use the term "poetic license" to explain the situation. The expression gives us artistic types the liberty to play with the english language in a way that suits our purposes. As writers, we do it all the time. I was just annoyed she did it with me. Suzanne - " But, don't fault her for it. Jill: I like Gary's take on the matter.
Honesty is better than portraying something for what it's not. Jill I think we need to be clear in our communication, and honest. But if the home's price reflected and well as the commentary like "use your imagination" maybe it would be okay.
I recently found myself disgusted by an agent who said "loving lived in" which really meant "crappy, stinky, filthy carpet and roaches" which totally wasted my time. It gives Realtors a bad name.
I might have said "creative layout lends for imaginative home buyers" If the home had been in a great neighborhood, priced right, and structurally could work, maybe it would be prudent.
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