Some grow angry and fly into a rage; some try to evade the issue by distracting attention from the unpleasant situation. . . . Some try to bluff their way through, refusing to admit their inadequacy. Others blame persons or objects instead of admitting their own limitations, like the one who, when she could not fit wooden forms into the holes of a board from which they had been cut, exclaimed, 'You just ought to have bigger holes! These aren't right at all!'"
(from Parenthood in a Free Nation, by Ethel Kawin, 1963)
Territorial imperatives
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A young bearded man was standing behind the receptionist Jo at the entrance
to the main building at Valley of the Temples. I thought he wanted to say...
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