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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Wed Oct 27 05:15:02 1993
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 05:14:04 -0400
From: Central America <root@charon.mit.edu>
To: ca-mtg@charon.mit.edu
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ckclark (Calvin Clark):
. . . . But how to begin a beginning?
A strange sound interrupted my tossing. I went to the window,
the cold air against my eyes. At first I saw only starlight. Then they
were there. Up in the March blackness, two entwined skeins of snow and
blue geese honking north, an undulating W-shaped configuration across
the deep sky, white bellies glowing eerily with the reflected light from
town, necks stretched northward. Then another flock pulled by who knows
what out of the south to breed and remake itself. A new season.
Answer: begin by following the spring as they did---darkly, with neck
stuck out.
-William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
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geocool (George A Cooley):
Come see West Side Story!
Coming this November to La Sala De Puerto-Rico...
West Side Story
book by: Arthur Laurents
music by: Leonard Bernstein
lyrics by: Stephen Sondheim
Performances will be:
November 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20.
Call x3-6294 for more information, or to make reservations.
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hch (Hernando Cortina):
I've got an IDEA!! Why don't I STARE at you so HARD,
you forget your SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER!!
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hooch (Conrad G. T. Yoder):
finger conrad@cs.stanford.edu for more information.
"He who lives far from neighbors may safely praise himself."
- Erasmus (1466-1536)
"On maths tests, I don't think they should have 'answers' - they should have
'impressions.' If we get a different 'impression' than everyone else, so what?
Can't we all be brothers?"
- Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey, SNL
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mtg (Musical Theatre Guild):
Coming this November to La Sala De Puerto-Rico...
West Side Story
book by: Arthur Laurents
music by: Leonard Bernstein
lyrics by: Stephen Sondheim
Performances will be:
November 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20.
Call x3-6294 for more info, or to make reservations.
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nightowl (Heather Grove):
(little boy's voice:) Here I go again, Up and down alone now.
All my friends went home, Years ago.
All my toys are broken, And so am I inside, mom.
The carnival went home, Years ago.
I'm a little boy.
(man's voice:) No I'm a great big man.
(boy's voice:) No let's be little boys, for a little while longer?
Maybe an hour?
(man's voice:) No, Steven, it's time to go back now.
(both:) Isn't that our mom calling?
(woman's distant voice:)
Steven! Steven!
Steven, where are you?
--Alice Cooper
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rjbarbal (Richard J. Barbalace):
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 93 17:08:03 EDT
From: clarinews@clarinet.com (Judith Martin)
Newsgroups: clari.feature.miss_manners
Copyright: 1993 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc., R
Subject: Misguided attempts at sympathy
If you are a good person, the sad chances are that you
will be called upon, every now and then, to comfort a friend. Bad
people take off like a shot when their friends suffer illness or
failure, lose their jobs or lose their relatives. But the good
stick around and visit the unfortunate, offering them the benefit
of their sympathy and wisdom.
And making them feel worse.
Miss Manners hastens to say that it is not the fact of
friends sticking around that troubles people at the low points of
their lives. It is a duty of mercy to do so, and generally people
are most appropriately grateful to those who stand by them when
they are in trouble.
What gets to them is the sympathy and wisdom that those
friends feel compelled to offer.
Rather than say the simple, perhaps even banal, but
deeply touching thing that etiquette requires ("I'm so sorry -- I
hope you know how much I care, and that you can count on me"),
most people feel obliged to come up with something more
elaborate.
Here are some currently popular styles in comforting the
downtrodden, who are apparently not yet miserable enough.
1. Things Could Be Worse.
Rather than deal with the tragedy that actually has
occurred, the person who favors this approach recites to the
victim all the things that didn't occur, and then offers
congratulations that they didn't.
If you broke your leg, you are fortunate that it wasn't
your arm. If you lost a parent, you are fortunate that it wasn't
your child. If your house burned down, you are fortunate that it
was insured. If you got mugged, you are fortunate that you didn't
get killed.
And so on. There is a clear suggestion that you ought to
be rejoicing instead of moping.
2. You Think You Have Troubles?
This is a more personal variation of the previous
technique. It offers a troubles competition, that the person
being comforted is bound to lose. In order to show the victim
that other acquaintances of the comforter's, not the person with
the immediate problem, should be the center of sympathetic
attention.
It is characterized by the phrase "That's nothing."
You had an automobile accident? That's nothing. A friend
of mine was in a plane that nearly crashed on takeoff. Your
husband asked for a trial separation? That's nothing. I know
someone whose husband has a contract out to have her killed.
The point is that the sufferer is being selfish for
dwelling on his or her own troubles instead of worrying about
unknown others who really ought to be the center of sympathetic
attention instead.
3. It's All for the Best.
This is not an attempt to deny the importance of the
tragedy, only to redefine it as a gain. The key phrase is "better
off."
The person who died is better off no longer suffering,
and the survivors are better off because they no longer have to
offer care or worry. You are better off that your car was stolen,
because you probably would have had to trade it in soon anyway,
and this way you get the insurance. You are better off not
getting promoted, because there would have been so much more
work.
This also suggests that the victim is ungrateful to feel
bad, when everything is actually going very well.
4. It's All Your Fault.
This technique does away with the phony optimism and the
pretense that there shouldn't be any bad feelings. On the
contrary, feeling sorry about your fate isn't enough; you should
feel guilty.
The line of comfort is "Well, what did you expect?"
Of course you had a heart attack. You were eating all
that heavy food. What did you expect? Of course your property was
vandalized. You didn't have an alarm system. What did you expect?
The comfort that is being offered here is that justice
is being done.
5. Go Ahead and Feel Terrible.
This may be Miss Manners' all-time favorite, because it
attacks the person who is coping well, even if only momentarily,
with tragedy, and encourages a display of misery.
You don't have to keep up a brave front with me. You
look terrible. You've got to start working through your grief.
Give yourself permission to cry. Come on, don't try to kid me, I
know you're miserable.
This is the comfort that says I know you're unhappy, but
you're not unhappy enough.
After all, what are friends for?
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rlcarr (Richard L. Carreiro):
>I think MacKinnon's views on the First Amendment are bogus, too, but
>... this is *netnews*, dammit! I don't want to read the proceedings
>of a mutual admiration society, I want *argument*! Vituperation!
>Flame wars! I want blood to leak out of my Ethernet socket!
>
>--
>seth gordon // sethg@gnu.ai.mit.edu // standard disclaimer // pgp2-compatible
>"Fear the government that fears your privacy."
> --Mark Brown <mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com>
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therese (Therese):
So I'm walking through the desert
and I'm not frightened although it's hot
I have all that I requested
and I do not want what I haven't got
- Sinead O'Connor
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wamprat (Irwin Lee):
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