Ha! Your pithy, incisive style of review in this instance is literally suited to the story you've chosen to review Jules.
Not, yet, having had the pleasure of the detailed acquaintance with the story's words that you have had - first by listening to its opening and second by eyeballing the text - what you write intrigues and entices but does not quite power the title into the 'must read, soon' stratum of my reading list.
If I may dare, and actually I do, ask what is the difference between 'coldness' and 'essential coldness'? What popped up in my mind was 'inessential coldness', so while you're clarifying 'essential coldness' why not do likewise for 'inessential coldness'?
Another excellent - quick to read, trip me to pause and think in the passing moment - succinct yet genially provocative review in what for me at least is an engaging sequence of such.
Thanks as always for reading and commenting, Rob! By essential coldness, I mean to reference their "essence"--more like the connotation of a core or fundamental quality rather than essential in the sense of necessary. I felt like "coldness" alone didn't quite capture this shared bedrock of their personalities.
Just wish the egocentric self-aggrandising ne'er do wells, who increasingly seem to be the majority of politicians, had the self-awareness to know that they too are not in fact 'cut out' for politics.
Ha! Your pithy, incisive style of review in this instance is literally suited to the story you've chosen to review Jules.
Not, yet, having had the pleasure of the detailed acquaintance with the story's words that you have had - first by listening to its opening and second by eyeballing the text - what you write intrigues and entices but does not quite power the title into the 'must read, soon' stratum of my reading list.
If I may dare, and actually I do, ask what is the difference between 'coldness' and 'essential coldness'? What popped up in my mind was 'inessential coldness', so while you're clarifying 'essential coldness' why not do likewise for 'inessential coldness'?
Another excellent - quick to read, trip me to pause and think in the passing moment - succinct yet genially provocative review in what for me at least is an engaging sequence of such.
Thanks Jules.
Thanks as always for reading and commenting, Rob! By essential coldness, I mean to reference their "essence"--more like the connotation of a core or fundamental quality rather than essential in the sense of necessary. I felt like "coldness" alone didn't quite capture this shared bedrock of their personalities.
🔨 Nailed it, 'essential coldness', for me Jules.
Asked a straight question you deliver, promptly, a straight answer.
So, no political ambitions I take it?
Hah! No, I'm clearly not cut out for politics.
Just wish the egocentric self-aggrandising ne'er do wells, who increasingly seem to be the majority of politicians, had the self-awareness to know that they too are not in fact 'cut out' for politics.