WARM CAR PAINT & WINTERGREEN Mixed messages are a favorite way that abusers control the abused. By putting the abused into a difficult situation, the abuser determines the agenda. Don’t let people get away with giving you mixed messages. Make them be clear and direct. Contradictory or conflicting messages, when coupled with something one is supposed to do, put a person in a ‘double bind’.
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mythical trickster
“Oh if every angel’s terrible Then why do you watch her sleep You love to hear her sing And wear purple eyes like rings Well the flowers have no scent And the child’s been miscarried Oh every angel’s terrible ” -cocorosie
this week on the avant guardian \/\/ warm car paint and wintergreen
“And so, it was at Puerto Rico that I first made contact with the United States; for the first time I breathed in the smell of warm car paint and wintergreen, those two olfactory poles between which stretches the whole range of American comfort, from cars to lavatories, by way of radio sets, sweets and toothpaste; and I tried to guess what the girls in the drugstores with their lilac dresses and mahogany hair were thinking about beneath their mask-like makeup.” -Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques RIP Claude Levi-Strauss, 1909-2009
