I would never tell someone who is designing a sweater how she should proceed unless she asked my opinion. Even if her knitting project looked like a giant barf-covered hairball, I would say, "It's Lovely."
From an Empirical point of view, my words would be a lie.
From an Aristotelian point of view, which suggests that truth is always a negotiation between the speaker, audience, and message of a given rhetorical situation, my words would not be a lie.
Because I (the speaker) would find it lovely that the knitter (my audience) would be willing to share their knitting with a total stranger.
No one should negatively comment on a unknown knitter's WIP unless they're prepared to be proven wrong in their opinion by the utter awesomeness that the project will eventually become.
2 comments:
i love reading this blog. my boyfriend is a comparative literature PhD candidate, and there are times where i read this blog and find that y'all have married my two favorite things. listening to him, and knitting. hilarious! keep up the great work!
What are mothers like? arrrgh! I have one, so you have my sympathy:-)
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