The main options are that it sticks with you or "irritates the piss out of you"? That's ironic...
[ She says it casually enough, a bit of snark to parry his own, but she repeatedly clenches and relaxes her left-hand fist in her lap, an unconscious tic from the uncomfortable vulnerability of even this basic line of conversation. ]
Yes, specifically with the capital 'C'--I know they lump a bunch of shit under classical music nowadays, and I like Baroque and Romantic well enough, but I'm specifically talking Haydn, Mozart, Schubert. I don't know what was in the water in Vienna then but...it works for me.
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[ She says it casually enough, a bit of snark to parry his own, but she repeatedly clenches and relaxes her left-hand fist in her lap, an unconscious tic from the uncomfortable vulnerability of even this basic line of conversation. ]
Yes, specifically with the capital 'C'--I know they lump a bunch of shit under classical music nowadays, and I like Baroque and Romantic well enough, but I'm specifically talking Haydn, Mozart, Schubert. I don't know what was in the water in Vienna then but...it works for me.