It blows me away how differently we see things ... i like the thought of acting on my mask as a more positive take on "hiding" the true self. Seems your speaker has a dark side and acts according to the mask to save the "other" in the relationship ... your making me use me noodle again andrew .. nice fresh take on a phony ... :)
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Strindberg said.
" When I come home and sit at my writing table, then I live.... I live, and I live in manifold fashion of all human beings. I depict; I am glad with the glad, wicked with the wicked,.. more..