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Yes, I’m afraid I can’t help it.
Consider the last two entries, and the evidence you
and I can find around us for human ethology as an unquestionable grid against
which we can measure people’s, and our own attitudes (behaviourism). This blog
would easily become something other than what it is, namely, a language workshop (well,
at least that’s what it’s meant to be,
that’s what I take it to be, in
the absence of feedback! Maybe this should be discussed somewhere in this very
blog, because I somehow suspect that it does have to do with some ethological
misunderstanding which puts readers off from expressing their opinions).
And then consider this:
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Three members of a family that has recently moved in our block on the same
floor were coming up. Two of them (women, whom I had seen before) and I made eye contact, exchanged smiles (that
kind of social smile you found out about in the previous two posts) and we all greeted each other. We (the
women, I mean) observed the whole ritual and, while I was waiting politely for the third family member (a twenty-something briskly
coming upstairs behind his relatives) to pass by, I somehow expected him to make eye
contact and greet; instead of the brisk climbing, he glanced at me sideways and,
for some three long minutes, he came up the last eight steps one by one,
feigning some pain in his left leg, which just “wouldn’t obey its owner’s will”
and took twice as much to reach his right leg with every step. The four long minutes now elapsed,
he crossed me (I was still there, standing rubbish-bag-in-hand), said a roguish
‘Hello’ and turned the corner.
Now, I’d very
much like to know what you think about this incident.
And about the photo below!
And about the photo below!
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