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Re: What did he mean by "one precious moment of her day"?
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JOF
Feb 29, 2012, 1:33:46 AM2/29/12
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On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:40:18 -0800 (PST), Tom Summers
<scotp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>In some other forum, some guy offended my friend and told him:
>
>"Dude, it's already been months than you have been obsessing about
>this girl.
>
>Let me give you a clue for free: she doesn't spend one precious moment
>of her day thinking about you. You, on the other hand...apparently
>this woman you never even met still causes strong emotions in you.
>Like I said, you are obsessed."
>
She doesn't spend any moment at all thinking about him. The "precious"
refers to the rarity of those non-existent moments.
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John
<scotp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>In some other forum, some guy offended my friend and told him:
>
>"Dude, it's already been months than you have been obsessing about
>this girl.
>
>Let me give you a clue for free: she doesn't spend one precious moment
>of her day thinking about you. You, on the other hand...apparently
>this woman you never even met still causes strong emotions in you.
>Like I said, you are obsessed."
>
She doesn't spend any moment at all thinking about him. The "precious"
refers to the rarity of those non-existent moments.
--
John
Marius Hancu
Feb 29, 2012, 11:09:12 AM2/29/12
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On Feb 29, 1:33 am, JOF <qu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:40:18 -0800 (PST), Tom Summers
>
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:40:18 -0800 (PST), Tom Summers
>
> <scotpres...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >In some other forum, some guy offended my friend and told him:
>
> >"Dude, it's already been months than you have been obsessing about
> >this girl.
>
> >Let me give you a clue for free: she doesn't spend one precious moment
> >of her day thinking about you. You, on the other hand...apparently
> >this woman you never even met still causes strong emotions in you.
> >Like I said, you are obsessed."
>
> She doesn't spend any moment at all thinking about him. The "precious"
> refers to the rarity of those non-existent moments.
Another possible take: she sees her moments as too precious to be
> >In some other forum, some guy offended my friend and told him:
>
> >"Dude, it's already been months than you have been obsessing about
> >this girl.
>
> >Let me give you a clue for free: she doesn't spend one precious moment
> >of her day thinking about you. You, on the other hand...apparently
> >this woman you never even met still causes strong emotions in you.
> >Like I said, you are obsessed."
>
> She doesn't spend any moment at all thinking about him. The "precious"
> refers to the rarity of those non-existent moments.
spent on a guy like him.
Thus not about rarity, but about the relative price of time.
Marius Hancu
JOF
Feb 29, 2012, 12:10:17 PM2/29/12
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"Used as an intensive: 'He had precious little right to complain'
(James Agee)."
"Precious" is often used to mean actual preciousness, but not here, I
think. It's not trying to say that every one of her moments is
precious, nor that only her non-precious moments are reserved, but
that she wastes not a single moment on thoughts of him. If she had
spent a second in thought about him, _he_ might consider that a
precious moment, but there isn't any such.
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John
JOF
Feb 29, 2012, 12:36:28 PM2/29/12
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is precious, nor that only her precious moments are reserved, but
that she wastes not a single moment on thoughts of him."
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John
Snidely
Feb 29, 2012, 8:50:41 PM2/29/12
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JOF submitted this idea :
Well, yes, but Marius has part of the story, too ... all her moments
are worth more than thinking about him is.
/dps
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Who, me?
are worth more than thinking about him is.
/dps
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Who, me?
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