A friend of mine introduced me to Scrivener (the writing software). It reminded me of this story by Herman Melville - the copyist who suffered some sort of breakdown and went about his work doing nothing, telling everyone that he would "prefer not to"! The infuriating part of it was apparently in the innocuous turn of phrase - "prefer not to". How many of us actually resort to something equally mild, yet resolute. My impression is that most of us are guilty of overstatement and hyperbole and these can be fatal in the age of voicemail and crackberries. Perhaps we should reconsider our responses...or perhaps it is simply that we prefer not to...
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