Those are my personal pet peeves. Foolishness and weakness. Ignorance is not always a bad or irritating thing to me and arrogance I've never had a problem with just as long as it was backed up, ala Muhammad Ali, who proclaimed himself a badass and proved it.
On reading Tolstoy's biography quite a few years ago, when I came to chapters describing his personality flaws, I became increasingly uncomfortable, as I recognized perfect descriptions of my own. I became annoyed enough with the man to throw away the book.
War and Peace and Anna Karenina
Ha-ha. I meant, what did he write that reminded you of yourself?
Unfortunately, this occured forty years ago. I don't have good enough recall to get specific.
Re: Theories on Irritating Behavior
Having just typed a lot and then erased it -
yes, I have.
Osso, it's too late to try it again.
