My dear Andrew,
I'd not given m'sel' much time last nite to think about all that you wrote,
so now for U my thought-debris. And I plan to keep punishing you for your
kind compliments and encouragements.
"Fled is that Funtime. So go ahead and Dance!" Me bowing full length to
you, Andrew, for that! Next I clothe m'sel' w GothGirl I'll tattoo that
slogan---in halvsies, natch---on each my biceps!
Your "Fled" title-rewrite reminds me of my fridge magnet (next to "If it
walks out of your refrigerator, let it go!"):
"WORK as if you don't need the money. LOVE as if you've never been hurt.
DANCE as if nobody's watching."
Of course all three reminders spin us about to face LOVE---the topic of
everything that is, has ever been, and ever will be.
Consider, for example, that most formalism, restrictive-isms, and other far
scarier -isms huddle in our dark corners with "I'll be thought a fool!"
This, in a globe having housed, in the greatest houses, Fools of
immeasurable worth to their monarchs!
Yet we permit none but a treasured few to be our Fools, oddly demeaning,
and---a brief slide down from that---condemning, those of us "normals" who
act like fools. Do "I was a fool for love" and "Everybody plays a fool
sometime" come to mind?
More difficult for men, I've noted, is being a fool for love. Yet, I feel,
love hits men harder. Women customarily "get over" a love more quickly than
men do, tho the males try to hide that fact. And who can blame them in
cultures constantly parading fear, love's opposite. For our culture's
customary standard-bearers, males, this is some deep stuff, and we're still
shovelling our way out of the deep stuff. Quik example: My son, the only
male in a uni course on feminism ("Hey,Ma, what better way to meet women?"
sez big brain), pointed out a new book's title: ARE MALES COST EFFECTIVE?
The author'd catalogued prison populations, crime stats, spouse homicides,
spouse-beatings, crimes of passion (oops, I mean "crimes of inverted
passion"), and so much more.
Of course you knew, din't you, Andrew, that I'd bring you safely home to my
port of playwright wisdom: let us make available to all ages and at every
educational stage ACTING. Let us keep alive and ready our ACTING, such as
you suggest we encourage young people's appearance-shifts while we still
allow it---and before we've proscribed it out of them! We express our
"actors-within" minutes after we hit the ground, that dropped-from-the-womb
entrance to our (we can only pray) awestruck audiences. My grandtwins, for
example, at age 20 months, can easily elude all but the most fascinated
witness (ME!) with sophisticated pretendings in order to get any toy
including their chiefest: MOM.
I propose for petc our doing what I've just, in part, done: riff a topic,
poetically and prose-etically each week. Maybe a combo of a "snap" and a
"thread"---a snapped thread, threadfulsnap . . . ad infinitoperfectum!
For now and forever, my fellow actor-freak,
Judy aka Frisky Moll, Chen, Ella Gant, and others who've only Thought
they'd escaped me
who cannot escape
Love
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Burke" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: "Fled is that Funtime. So go ahead and Dance!"
> Judy Judy Judy ...
>
> I have been in the role of that nasty name-calling bitch at a local uni -
> and we certainly didn't accuse anyone of plagiarising without substantial
> proof. (Students have legal redress on false accusations.) When I did - I
> caught four people at it in one semester (entire drama essays, not
> poems) -
> we had very formal ways of presenting our evidence to the culprits and
> then
> deciding on the punishment. Two were given a grade of 0 for that unit;
> two,
> who had stolen ideas and not the text, were warned and sent back to do
> their
> essays again - plus write a 2 000 essay on paraphrasing, plagiaring and
> referencing in essays. I thought those last two got off lightly, but it
> was
> their attitude that saved them from 'the chop'. I really thought the first
> two should have been drummed out of the uni. (I caught them all by
> Googling
> their trickiest statements and there the evidence was.)
>
> Your appearance sounds perfect for a uni student of creative leaning. We
> had
> an academy of creative arts attached to uni - jazz studies, dance,
> theatre -
> and I used to play a singularly entertaining game of 'spot which
> discipline'
> various clumps of students were from at the cafe. Endless hours of fun. Of
> course my age and faux hip clothing gave me away to them - a 'creative'
> lecturer of some ilk.
>
> I taught my children to experiment with their physical appearance during
> their school years becuase once they got into the workforce, they probably
> couldn't do it. I'm glad the baked beans and frozen peas enjoy your
> company
> at the superdupermart.
>
> So, tell the Witch to loosen up, get a life, and teach creatively if she's
> teaching creative units. & ask her to please see us in our 'office': get
> her
> to put her case to p'etc - We shouldn't judge her without hearing her
> side,
> methinks. But that's _not_ how I FEEL!
>
> Stand up for your rights, as some hairy pot-smoking band once sang.
>
> Andrew
>
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