Knygathin
Grimscribe
Don't you ever get in a total rage when a seller cheats you, and plan some juicy revenge by visiting upon him personally??! In the case above the seller is perhaps ill or confused, since he can also be overly generous in-between.
I rarely get cheated by small-businesses (or by others such as neighbours or shallow acquaintances), but if that happens very clearly, and the unethical person on top of it responds with arrogance, I might burst a brain vessel! It is so frustrating when no arguing helps, because not much can be done about it, other than hunting the seller down and giving him a good beating! But then you will make yourself unhappy and end up in jail. I try to be philosophical about such situations, try to stay cool, but am not very good at it. But some say it all measures up in the end - for no one escapes Nemesis Divina while living (Carl von Linnaeus, by the way, wrote an interesting book on this subject by that title).
I read in letters by Lovecraft how he occasionally got cheated by publishers and some revisionary clients, but he seemed stoic about it, clinging to his level gentlemanly virtuous manner. But I know he was upset with Farnsworth Wright for stolidly procrastinating and denying publication of some of Lovecraft's best stories. Farnsworth - that bastard! - ruined Lovecraft's career, and finally got him to give up writing new stories.
I rarely get cheated by small-businesses (or by others such as neighbours or shallow acquaintances), but if that happens very clearly, and the unethical person on top of it responds with arrogance, I might burst a brain vessel! It is so frustrating when no arguing helps, because not much can be done about it, other than hunting the seller down and giving him a good beating! But then you will make yourself unhappy and end up in jail. I try to be philosophical about such situations, try to stay cool, but am not very good at it. But some say it all measures up in the end - for no one escapes Nemesis Divina while living (Carl von Linnaeus, by the way, wrote an interesting book on this subject by that title).
I read in letters by Lovecraft how he occasionally got cheated by publishers and some revisionary clients, but he seemed stoic about it, clinging to his level gentlemanly virtuous manner. But I know he was upset with Farnsworth Wright for stolidly procrastinating and denying publication of some of Lovecraft's best stories. Farnsworth - that bastard! - ruined Lovecraft's career, and finally got him to give up writing new stories.
