Tuesday, December 31, 2013

She's the princess and the pea

Christmas time is a season for family and family is historical.  My aunt was explaining the sensitivity of my cousin - how as a child she had complained about her mattress until the bed was upended and some scrunches in an old mattress protector were found.  'She's always been like that - she's the Princess and the pea,' said my Aunt.

I liked that expression. Someone says about Narcissus - 'he is the scorcher and him who is scorched.'. Kierkegaard says 'the self is a relation that relates itself to itself'.  It would help in a lot of problems to realize were the Princess and the pea, that which hates to yield and yet does, and that which doesn't care and is unyielding.

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