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When I was 11, years before my English teacher introduced me to Bartleby the Scrivener, I adopted the whole "I'd prefer not" routine as a [more polite?] way to say no [with less difficulty.]
Somehow that expression gradually faded from my vocabulary, and I think my life was worse for it.
Quoth![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
misia in her other blog, "Although Bartleby’s story is the story of firmly-stated personal preferences taken to an absurd extreme, the principle of simply stating one’s personal preferences and behaving exactly as one has said one will is a fantastically simple and solid one."
Indeed. I'm going to start using it again.
Somehow that expression gradually faded from my vocabulary, and I think my life was worse for it.
Quoth
misia in her other blog, "Although Bartleby’s story is the story of firmly-stated personal preferences taken to an absurd extreme, the principle of simply stating one’s personal preferences and behaving exactly as one has said one will is a fantastically simple and solid one."Indeed. I'm going to start using it again.