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Originally Posted by Gilda
"The dilemma, the delicious tension between", I'm cool with it up to that point. But it requires the contrast of two points there, and I'm not quite seeing whether there are two separate comparisons or one big one. To wit, does this mean that there is tension between A: what we know and B: our safety and additionally between C: how we're thought of and D: setting aside everything else for our heart's desire. Or is it one big comparison between A: what we already know and our safety and how we're thought of and B: setting aside everything else for our heart's desire. Or is it one big comparison between A: what we already know and our safety and B:how we're thought of, and of setting aside everything else for our heart's desire.
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Hoist on my own linguistic petard.
I intended the second of those three: on one hand, there's what we know, our safety, and how we're thought of. On the other hand there's giving up all that for what we know in our heart is truly that which expresses ourselves.