Maybe the best thing about that Russell Brand book I was semi-lukewarm about was his assertion that you can get away with the most shocking and disgusting admissions as long as you preface them with a "to my shame."
Steal money from your mother to buy heroin? Kick babies and molest dogs? Listen to Billy Joel? Refuse to read great works of English literature? As long as you throw in a "to my shame" or "shamefully" when relating these anecdotes, your listener/reader will go, "Oh! Well, s/he knows it's wrong. So that's alright then."
I've been trying this out. And I think it works! I suggest you do the same.
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