Nobody likes dating. It's awkward and uncomfortable. It's expensive.
– Well, my… My mother and father were part of a rather unusual circle in Concord… Do you know the word «transcendentalist»?
– But this is German romantic philosophy. We throw off constraints and come to know ourselves through insight and experience. It's out of fashion now.
– Well, not in the March family, I’m afraid. It’s just that with all that transcendence comes much emphasis on perfecting oneself.
– This gives you a problem?
– I'm hopelessly flawed.
I see you've turned your shame into an asset.
improving, you remain forever insufficient
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