Talk:Robbie/Timeline RMCC

The idiom, comme il faut

The idiom, comme il faut, literally says "as it is necessary" and comes to refer to what is conventionally required because in settled social circles, many conventions take on an appearance of necessity, requiring those who will conduct themselves effectively to follow the conventional expectations astutely. But the phrase can turn very ironic when necessities of life diverge from the social necessities. With the move to the farm, social necessity still controlled, I became alert, tacitly but consequentially, to these ironies as they arose and took advantage of them to center there, for better and for worse, my own independent lifeworld. Robbie (talk) 11:03, 13 January 2026 (MST)