A hundred words to praise a woman. Too many. Our talk is smaller.” “So when I meet a woman, I should simply say, ‘You are beautiful’?” Tempi shook his head. “No. You would say simply ‘beautiful,’ and let the woman decide the rest of what you mean.” “Isn’t that …” I didn’t know the words for “vague” or “unspecific” and had to start again to get my point across. “Doesn’t that lead to confusion?” “It leads to thoughtfulness,”
