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He will also tend to take a pleasant viewpoint. He will rather seem glad that he got there than upset and fatigued because he got lost on the way. If it is a public dinner, he will remark that the pie is good rather than that the soup was bad. If it is a dance, he will be glad that some of the musical numbers are good rather than critical of those which are bad. If he mentions a movie he has seen, he will stress what was interesting about it, not what was dull. There is no room in small talk for a conversational kill-joy. If one likes nothing, one should stay home. While there is a place for an honest criticism of things, that place is not in small talk. It is not in that preliminary conversation when people are just beginning to know each other. It belongs in the "conversazione" the talk of the salon, where the talk has reached the level of ideas. |
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