Comments on: 08/15/2018 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7210 Tue, 20 May 2025 03:13:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Peter Rogan http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7210&cpage=1#comment-296430 Peter Rogan Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:36:02 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7210#comment-296430 Oop. So right. Slip of the virtual tongue. Oop. So right. Slip of the virtual tongue.

]]> By: ronald http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7210&cpage=1#comment-296429 ronald Thu, 16 Aug 2018 02:40:15 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7210#comment-296429 Shrug. If that's your story, by all means, stick to it. Not a big deal but that's Lenny, btw, not Stanley. Shrug. If that’s your story, by all means, stick to it.

Not a big deal but that’s Lenny, btw, not Stanley.

]]> By: Peter Rogan http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7210&cpage=1#comment-296428 Peter Rogan Thu, 16 Aug 2018 00:06:30 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7210#comment-296428 Not in Bruno's case. Remember that this story began with Bruno leaving home after having left college, where she couldn't figure out what she wanted it for. Since that time, despite her constant intellectualizing, she has fled in terror from her own motives and her deeper impulses, indulging them (as with stripping) as much as avoiding them. That's why being shanghaied bemused her; somebody else had an idea what to do with her, something preservationist, when she herself did not. Stanley's observation is not condescending as much as it is casually revelatory. He's seen this tailspin before. And he isn't shy about letting her know she's become predictable, even when she thinks she has no clue. She does. She just doesn't see them. Not in Bruno’s case. Remember that this story began with Bruno leaving home after having left college, where she couldn’t figure out what she wanted it for. Since that time, despite her constant intellectualizing, she has fled in terror from her own motives and her deeper impulses, indulging them (as with stripping) as much as avoiding them.

That’s why being shanghaied bemused her; somebody else had an idea what to do with her, something preservationist, when she herself did not. Stanley’s observation is not condescending as much as it is casually revelatory. He’s seen this tailspin before. And he isn’t shy about letting her know she’s become predictable, even when she thinks she has no clue. She does. She just doesn’t see them.

]]> By: ronald http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7210&cpage=1#comment-296427 ronald Wed, 15 Aug 2018 15:35:13 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7210#comment-296427 "I know what I want." "No, you don't." "I know what you want/need better than you do." How so very condescending... “I know what I want.”
“No, you don’t.”

“I know what you want/need better than you do.” How so very condescending…

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