Guess what? It turns out that I have way more need to be acknowledged, affectionately, than I like to think. Or like to pretend. I'm not sure there's a difference.
I think it can be. I was referring more to the specific construction, "I like to think," than the meaning of "to think," but it's interesting to speculate that the latter might be a form of pretense.
seems to imply a kind of doubling. the liking and the thinking being a bit of a pretend and pretending is a sort of exploration. formally, mimesis, but with much more interesting uses in everyday life. playing, learning, subrterfuge, criminality. i used to like that stuff about mimesis, i seem to remember something interesting from roger callois about it, and stuff about doubles.
i was starting to think you were super human! everyone needs that, and trust me you are regarded affectionately by a great many people, myself included.
Is it a preferred version of yourself that is underacknowledged? The British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips (a former fave) once suggested that we are never misunderstood we are only understood in ways we don't like. Back east, amongst a deeper density of kith and kin than usual, I've had plenty of occasion to think about this.
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Big Man Hugs, Charlie Bertsch.
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My goodness, what have I become?
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Re: pretending
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and pretending is a sort of exploration. formally, mimesis, but with much more interesting uses in everyday life. playing, learning, subrterfuge, criminality.
i used to like that stuff about mimesis, i seem to remember something interesting from roger callois about it, and stuff about doubles.
oh good
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