Red Pen

[plumtreeblossom]

My horoscope today advises me:

Capricorn: Be sure not to let anybody down
by holding up your end of an agreement.

Verbatim. Now, if I am to implement this as instructed, it would mean that by holding up my end of an agreement, I would be letting someone down. Which is to say, the game plan for today should be to drop the ball or otherwise flake out on an agreement, thus avoiding letting anybody down.

Hmm, what have I agreed to today? Not much. I could not show up at rehearsal tonight, if it would circumvent a let-down.

When you have an editorial brain, the whole world is you own personal mine field.

Comments

[dpolicar]

Well... not quite.

It asserts that, IF you are in any situation where holding up your end of an agreement would let someone down, THEN you ought not hold up your end of that agreement. It doesn't actually assert that the premise applies.

But yes, it is funny.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Then if it's asserting an if instead of a when, what the hell use is it as a horoscope? What happened to good old-fashioned comittal horoscopes that said "Today you will meet a dark stranger who will give you a letter..." without giving a good goodamn if it was wrong? Even horoscopes today pussy-foot around the liability bush.

*smirk!*

[dpolicar]

Yeah. We live in uncertain times.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Or rather, unconfirmed times. :-)

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

I'm the same. It took a good minute of staring at it for me to figure out the way it was supposed to be read.