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Date Posted: Fri, April 29 2022, 5:21:04
Author: Cait
Subject: QOTD for Friday, April 29th 2022

The following quotation is taken from Voyager by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 1994 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 17 Monsters Rising

"Something wrong with short men, is there?" Roger inquired.

"They tend to turn mean if they don't get their way," Claire answered. "Like small yapping dogs. Cute and fluffy, but cross them and you're likely to get a nasty nip on the ankle."

Roger laughed. "This observation is the result of years of experience, I take it?"

"Oh, yes." She nodded, glancing up at him. "I've never met an orchestra conductor over five feet tall. Vicious specimens, practically all of them. But tall men" ----her lips curved slightly as she surveyed his six-feet-three-inch frame--- "tall men are almost always very sweet and gentle."

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[> I always think about this observation and laugh to myself when watching a short man bob around a taller woman, and having had my own encounters with the short versions of men I would have to agree with Claire, there are always exceptions but generally speaking some of them hide the most spectacular tempers. -- Cait, Fri, April 29 2022, 5:24:17


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[> I also wonder how much of this is actually Diana speaking. If I remember correctly, she met her husband, Doug, in band rehearsal when she was engaged to someone else. -- DianaH, Fri, April 29 2022, 7:29:40


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[> [> How interesting, Diana. I hadn’t heard that before but it makes sense and is almost impossible to not picture Doug when reading Jamie. Short Man Syndrome - I never saw it described so well. Lol. Little yappers trying so hard to prove they’re not little yappers. -- Kathy in PA, Fri, April 29 2022, 11:54:57


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