Le Malentendu
Jason Kottke:
Some people are determined to deliberately misunderstand much of what they encounter in life. Sometimes I have a hard time realizing that that’s their problem, not mine.
The peril of the writer, swiftly put. Once you set free that skiff of paper, there’s no telling what people’ll make of it. More often than not, they’ll fire on it before it reaches closing distance, just to be on the safe side.
