Originally Posted by ladyislingering

you can't exactly let on like that.

there's more of a thrill in teasing them and leading them on, to the point where they'll build one particular vision of you, and then right when you're ready to show them what you're really like, you scare them half to death and they feel like they have the world's best kept secret hanging on their arm.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.