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lil  ·  4055 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lil's Book of Questions: What Do I Say Next? A Love Story for Shy People

Following my posting of this blog, I had this e-versation with a friend.

Lil: I'm sure it doesn't apply to you.

Friend: Well, it actually does as I don't have, and never have had, the faintest idea of how to proceed in the situation described. There are many, many problems. One of which is that I'm incapable of learning through induction so the specific example in your blog entry of people saying things is of no use at all to me. I need a general principle to work deductively down to all possible specific cases from.

Lil: But I keep meeting people who DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.

Friend: Well, I don't know what to say to that...I'm slowly building a monologue on pencils for your edification and amusement...