They call it a bare-faced lie because a bare face normally indicated openness and honesty. As opposed to all those shifty hairy types.
If you say to me now that the past month was anything less than the most free, the most heroic, the most YOU that you have ever felt, well... </>
Actually, quite the opposite happened. The more the moustache grew, the less I felt like myself.
Oh, it looked good. That's not just vanity - too many people genuinely said I should keep it. He was a handsome fellow, that man with the burnsides.
But he was stranger to me. So the moustache is gone.
Is there not something heroic in being true to yourself?
Besides, it did its job, raised its donations, and then was gone. Surely that's better than overstaying your welcome, stretching the excitement so thin it transmutes into tedium?
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Date: 2008-12-01 08:21 pm (UTC)If you say to me now that the past month was anything less than the most free, the most heroic, the most YOU that you have ever felt, well... </>
Actually, quite the opposite happened. The more the moustache grew, the less I felt like myself.
Oh, it looked good. That's not just vanity - too many people genuinely said I should keep it. He was a handsome fellow, that man with the burnsides.
But he was stranger to me. So the moustache is gone.
Is there not something heroic in being true to yourself?
Besides, it did its job, raised its donations, and then was gone. Surely that's better than overstaying your welcome, stretching the excitement so thin it transmutes into tedium?
Always leave them wanting more.