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<blockquote data-quote="Dick Rees" data-source="post: 81863" data-attributes="member: 16"><p>Re: Troll thread</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>From "A Definition of a Jerk", by Sydney J. Harris:</p><p></p><p> "A jerk, then, is a man (or woman) who is utterly unable to see himself as he appears to others. He has no grace, he is tactless without meaning to be, he is a bore even to his best friends, he is an egotist without charm. All of us are egotists to some extent, but most of us--unlike the jerk--are perfectly and horribly aware of it when we make asses of ourselves. <strong>The jerk never knows</strong>."</p><p></p><p><a href="http://grammar.about.com/od/shortpassagesforanalysis/a/harrisjerkstyle.htm" target="_blank">A Definition of a Jerk, by Sydney J. Harris - Scrapbook of Styles - Passages for Rhetorical Analysis - Last Things First, by Sydney J. Harris</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dick Rees, post: 81863, member: 16"] Re: Troll thread From "A Definition of a Jerk", by Sydney J. Harris: "A jerk, then, is a man (or woman) who is utterly unable to see himself as he appears to others. He has no grace, he is tactless without meaning to be, he is a bore even to his best friends, he is an egotist without charm. All of us are egotists to some extent, but most of us--unlike the jerk--are perfectly and horribly aware of it when we make asses of ourselves. [b]The jerk never knows[/b]." [url=http://grammar.about.com/od/shortpassagesforanalysis/a/harrisjerkstyle.htm]A Definition of a Jerk, by Sydney J. Harris - Scrapbook of Styles - Passages for Rhetorical Analysis - Last Things First, by Sydney J. Harris[/url] [/QUOTE]
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