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Let me see if I have this correct: "Rather than try hard to have charm, poise, cool, grace, one should die." ???
This is counterintuitive and nonsensical to me. What is the problem with trying to "have grace?" or "be graceful?" Am I not following your terms here? And how is this related to class, or the aristocracy? Isn't part of class grace? Why is death preferable? If someone is charmless or awkward, should they just die and rid us of their awkward presence? That kills off most all of the world's teenagers, male and female.
It's likely I'm misunderstanding. Clarify if you're so inclined.
hmm. The hock is indirectly going to help me have charm, poise, and cool. After you've almost died in the fucking alaskan wilderness, a lot of things seem trivial by comparison. I hope I'll be more determined, more conscientious, and less neurotic. I suppose it'd be good if the least graceful five percent or so of teenagers decided to undertake a challenge as dangerous as the Hock, although everyone rolls their own Hock. Doesn't have to be wilderness, even.
No it won’t. Go to chilis and strike up political conversations with random other tables. Mentor at risk youth. Start teaching yourself a new language and frequent pool halls that do business in it. Something to interact with people you have nothing in common with until you develop enough cool to have a hitchhiker’s towel effect on grace, charm, and all the rest.
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