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[grashupfer]

I always question the intelligence of people who tell me stories *I* told them as if breaking news to me. But really I should be questioning my ability to read people, to know when people are listening. I was reading some of Gibbon, and I can't not hear in his tone (don't use that tone with me) something I never heard before. I think Boswell knew

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[nightspore]

So, because of Philipp Meyer?

I love Gibbon. His atheism put him on the Hume-Smith side of the Hume/Johnson divide.

[grashupfer]

No, I was reading the passages I highlighted years ago. Amazing stuff, and I can see why younger me underlined them but different from what interests me now. The price of china in Texas is my new pet phrase.

[wolodymyr]

<3

oh, it only has to do with what's it like to hang out with people. which is like, everything.

[grashupfer]

Yes to this.

[proximoception]

Oddest thing is when they seemed uninterested or unconvinced when you originally told them.

[grashupfer]

Yes isn't it though.

[ms_pooka]

brian constantly tells me things i've just finished telling him. it can be blamed on his selective hearing.

[grashupfer]

That sounds familiar. Guilty at times of selective hearing but not the repeating stories part.

[grashupfer]

I've been tortured by that one. Truly.