Morass
On TV, reporters and pundits discuss a bunch of presidential candidate Senator Clinton’s old letters, written to a friend when she was 16 years old. They read, “Sunday was lethargic from the beginning as I wallowed in a morass of general and specific dislike and pity for most people but me especially.”
April: 16? Did they say 16?
HE: Yep.
April: Wow. I don’t know many 16-year-olds who would use the word “morass” in their everyday language.
HE: At 16? You would have.
April: Well, yeah, but that’s only because I’d want to see more ass at the ball.
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LOL. Witty and honest.
That doesn’t sound anything like what I wrote when I was 16…
I didn’t know they had emo writers back in the (40s, 50s? how old is that woman anyway?)
What I find scary is that this implies people can sucessfully draw conclusions about a person by analysing written when they were a teenager – and that it is valid to do so when they are beyond that age by 40 years or so, to decide whether they can appropriately fill a position they are applying for.
Not to mention the complete loss of privacy of anything you may ever have said or thought or written.
Very scary.
That was my thought, too, Estara.
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