Re: sense & sentimentality

Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 24 May 1999 20:27:06 +1000

The inimitable Scottie B wrote:
>      '... the state of being Wise (heck, `It's a Wise Child'!) 
>     is something that I believe certain people are born with, 
>     an intangible which cannot be eroded or changed from 
>     birth but just covered or uncovered ...'
> 
>     And here was I thinking that sentimentality was 
>     the prerogative of the elderly.

and the eminently imitable Camille replied:

Well, I wasn't being sentimental or airy fairy or New Age - or I wasn't
intending to be, anyway. I have been privileged to meet people in my life
who have been something that for want of a better word `Wise'. There's no
getting around it - perhaps they are more attuned to the way the world
works, perhaps they had a great upbringing, I don't know. But surely you
cannot deny that element in some people that seems to separate them from
the earthly? In a wholly unsentimental way even?

Camille
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