Not discipline. Not self-sacrificing. Never "for your own good". How would it be if the members of a family treated each other as autonomous, rational and well-intentioned people?
Thursday, March 24, 2005
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"Spoiling the dignity and repose of the tea party" has been a familiar expression in my family for counter-cultural behaviour for as long as I can remember.
Shouldn't it be "disturb[ing]"?
ReplyDeleteWell, yes, but my family metamorphosed it into "spoil[ing]". I was still delighted to discover its origin :)
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