Darling by Richard Rodriguez

Author:Richard Rodriguez
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2013-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

Then you said: Why are you telling me all this? If men would only listen to themselves sometimes.

I said: Men? I’m demonstrating the rhetorical uses of “darling”—as if you were my Orals Examiner.

You: Then as your Orals Examiner, Darling, I feel I should tell you something important. “Darling” should be intimate; “darling” should be understood, not flung about the room like a stripper’s garter. If you feel you really must darling someone in public, and karaoke is not readily available, scribble your sonnet on a napkin and pass it under the table when no one is looking. Don’t toss “darlings” around like you are feeding the seals. It is no way to treat a woman. (Tears.)

• • •

Later that same evening . . .

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