--Would you trust this proposal?Here is an older homeowner, living in (let us say) a large, once-regal Victorian with significant acreage, who due to increasing years can no longer get around it so well, nor maintain the estate in the style formerly accustomed, and so has hired someone to look after the building and yard for which this individual ( Read more... )

--With apologies to Oscar Wilde, Guy de Maupassant, and Franz Kafka.*

'Twas dashed off carefully & thoughtfully written in response to a specific online whiner, but one that was but instancing of a common trope, which itself is but a narrow version of a general syndrome, and thus may be applied elswhere as applicable...

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