Exaggeration

So in the area of money, is this an area that you are able to stay calm, or is this an area that it's able for you to sort of to get out of that space of being, of being in charge of yourself and your emotions? And one thing we can do is catastrophize, and this can be for any of these areas that we're gonna touch on, is c- if, if you're not familiar with this contap-- con-con-concept, catastrophizing is when we are sure just, like, the worst-case scenario is gonna happen.

Now, it's one thing with our wise mind to think about potential worst-case scenarios and to make preparation for them that's reasonable.

Catastrophizing is, "This is terrible.

I-I'm gonna go broke.

This is-- I'm gonna go bankrupt.

And the shortest way of expressing the more recent neglect of Dickens is to say that, for our time and taste, he exaggerates the wrong thing.

Exaggeration is the definition of art.

That both Dickens and the moderns understood.

Art is, in its inmost nature, fantastic.

Those years may also, in their strange mixture of morbidity and reality, have increased in him his tendency to exaggeration.

But we can scarcely lament this in a literary sense.

Exaggeration is almost the definition of art, and it is entirely the definition of Dickens's art.

Those years may have given him many moral and mental wounds, from which he never recovered.

And fuel prices out West were like $12 a gallon.

Over-exaggeration, but it's extremely expensive.

But this one, Indianapolis, Indiana to Atlanta, Georgia.

This is an interesting one because it dropped.