Table manners - or barely disguised hostilities and aggressions ?
More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2016 (20 to 27 October)
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17 February
What do we really learn at the table together : table manners - or barely disguised hostilities and aggressions ?
The schoolboy wisdom, when chastised, may have been that we owe table manners just to the court of Versailles, and so we can dispense with being 'hung up up' about them. (It is a moot point, though, who gets hung up (or which more) - those offended, or the transgressor ?).
However, their arbitrary employment can show barely disguised hostilities and aggressions between us what we might call society (or - even more bogusly - polite company'
When I collected cutlery - this wasn't the posh part of The Law Society - the first humiliation was when he stomped off for dessert-spoons !— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 17, 2017
It now occurs that this may not have been a test - not *of that* :— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 17, 2017
Offered a dessert-spoon, might he still have humphed off, to return it ?
To be continued - but it is also linked to the posting ???
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