9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for February 13, 2017
Transcript:
Man: Just to satisfy my curiousity, heliotrope, what is it precisely that makes you hate xiulan? woman: I don't hate her. She's a lovely girl whom I find, just by wildest chance, cloyingly sweet and repugnant. I see nothing mutually exclusive about those attributes. I feel no hatred, only a natural revulsion. Man: It only illustrates your generous breadth of thought, colored as it is with pastel dashes of delicate casuistry, for which I've always admired you. Woman: don't overdo it. Man: you prized the words right out of my mouth.