[b]Lillian Hellman
Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don’t get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell. [/b]
Been there, done that.
Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman’s dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter ‘repented’, changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.
And then it’s pentimento all the way down.
You don’t always know how to do things when they’re happening.
Of course that’s basically the rule here.
It doesn’t pay well to fight for what we believe in.
And that’s before we get to what it cost.
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
Just ask Bob Mueller.
Callous greed grows pious very fast.
Next thing you know it’s a whole philosophy.