La Belle travels during the pandemic because it’s too hard to pretend to care about the rest of humanity any longer. Fun times with shallow people in designer clothes is all that matters. And if you don’t post pics and brag about it on social media, did it even happen?
I thought I would bring you something a little different to kick off this Monday. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.
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Original at Slate.com's Dear Prudence column
Mood: >!Not your average JustNoMIL material. I think. I don't go there.!<
>Dear Prudence,
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>My mother-in-law hates me and makes no bones about it when she and I are alone. My husband doesn’t believe me, and she even gloats about that. We have to attend family functions at her home about once a month. (It used to be more frequent, but after I put my foot down, my husband agreed that monthly would be sufficient.) The problem is that after each visit, I wind up with a bad case of diarrhea; my husband does not. I don’t know if the other in-laws are affected, because if I asked, it would get back to her. I suspect that my mother-in-law is putting something in my food or drink. Last time, I barely made it home before being struck down. Now I am considering getting some “adult undergarments” to make sure I don’t ruin the car’s upholstery on the ride home from her place. Do you have any other advice?
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>—Running for the Hills
>Dear Running,
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>In the great old Cary Grant movie Suspicion, director Alfred Hitchcock has a scene in which possible murderer Grant is bringing a glass of milk to his wife, played by Joan Fontaine, and no beverage has ever looked so malign. Just as Fontaine wasn’t sure if she was being poisoned, you aren’t either. It’s possible you’ve entered a Pavlovian cycle in which when you eat your mother-in-law’s food your digestive tract automatically goes into overdrive, or that there is some ingredient she regularly uses which just doesn’t agree with you. It’s also possible she’s trying to harm you. I’ve been reading a fascinating book, The Poisoner’s Handbook, about poisoners in the early 20th century—it was a popular way to off someone—and the new forensic scientists who exposed them. Peek at your mother-in-law’s Kindle to see if she’s downloaded this. The next time you go for dinner at her house, after t
- Manly Prudence
Not the height, it is the declivity that is terrible! The declivity, where the gaze shooteth downwards, and the hand graspeth upwards. There doth the heart become giddy through its double will. Ah, friends, do ye divine also my heart's double will? This, this is my declivity and my danger, that my gaze shooteth towards the summit, and my hand would fain clutch and lean—on the depth! To man clingeth my will; with chains do I bind myself to man, because I am pulled upwards to the Superman: for thither doth mine other will tend. And therefore do I live blindly among men, as if I knew them not: that my hand may not entirely lose belief in firmness. I know not you men: this gloom and consolation is often spread around me. I sit at the gateway for every rogue, and ask: Who wisheth to deceive me? This is my first manly prudence, that I allow myself to be deceived, so as not to be on my guard against deceivers. Ah, if I were on my guard against man, how could man be an anchor to my ball! Too easily would I be pulled upwards and away!
Can you explain this chapter, please!
After the birth of Christ, Joseph, more than anyone else, could easily have thought God would take care of him and his family so that he didn't have to do anything to protect them from harm. He didn't. God helped, to be sure, but it was a help which gave room for Joseph to act, to play his role in keeping his family safe: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2021/12/the-prudence-of-joseph/
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The growth of her character over the entire series is probably the best of any character in the show, but I can’t really put my finger on the actual turning point in her character growth. It seems like it happened so gradually that you really can’t tie it to a specific incident. It just happens.
What do you think was the turning point for her?
