“Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends or toward concepts. That which is sought too deliberately is not obtained.” KnowledgeHistoryExpressionPersonal LifeSubterfugeObliqueCircumlocution Author:Maurice Merleau-Ponty
“But in this case,” he continues, tracing the line of the plasterwork with one finger, “I feel that there is one cliché that sums up my position so admirably that it would be pure egotism to attempt a more interesting periphrasis. Plain speaking, therefore, there is to be. “There is undoubtedly a strong possibility, notwithstanding the vagaries of contingency and misfortune, that my son might have fallen—or might, we could say, have voluntarily jumped, in accordance with the ethical codes with which he has been brought up—for a play you have made with some success, although, as I am persuaded you would concede, very little originality.” Plain speaking if you’re Henry James, perhaps.” HumorRelationshipsPowerMisogynyMenaceHenry JamesIn LawsClass DifferenceClass DividePlain SpeakingCircumlocutionJamesian Book:The Bookstore Source: The Bookstore