Subtle Person

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“The half-caught smile,
the subtle little sort of differentiating
between the thing that’s said
and that’s said not;
the “have I seen you somewhere else?
forgot? impossible.””
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

““Speak when you’re spoken to!” the Queen sharply interrupted her.
“But if everybody obeyed that rule,” said Alice, who was always ready for a little argument, “and if you only spoke when you were spoken to, and the other person always waited for you to begin, you see nobody would ever say anything, so that—””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)