echoing Candice; I've always enjoyed your presence here. plus 'here'
is what we make of it
KS
On 09/06/07, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> No problem, Joe. I am not looking to take offence: I was just a bit taken
> aback by the responses my posts have garnered here. It rather seems to me
> that some people are very willing to take offence at things I have said in
> all, well, openness, curiosity and fun. I have no desire to be anywhere I
> feel unwelcome, and I guess it's time I left.
>
> Yes, I did run this list for many years, and I'm proud that for a long time
> it was a stimulating and interesting list. And then for a couple of years I
> was too busy to participate in any meaningful way, which was a problem, but
> there we are. Life is like that. All the same, I think it's a shame that
> the list that John Kinsella founded, and which was called "poetryetc"
> because it assumed poetry was about many things, seems to have become so
> closed.
>
> I want to emphasise that there are many people on this list whom I value. I
> hope you'll keep in touch. Facebook is good - my profile is
> http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=608106651 should anyone want to keep
> in contact.
>
> I wish you all well. No hard feelings on my part; clearly things have moved
> on here, and so must I.
>
> Alison
>
>
>
> On 6/9/07, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > You need to read more carefully Alison. This sentence does not say that
> > the
> > "I in the theater" is not problematized: "The I in the theater is
> > certainly
> > interesting, but it is not the problematized lyric I this discussion began
> > with." The sentence deploys the definite article carefully and comments on
> > the shape of the "discussion," since as you were kind enough to inform us
> > yesterday, this is a discussion list. You appear to be looking to take
> > offense. Perhaps you liked the list better when you "ran" it. That's the
> > word you used in a post yesterday, not a word I would use to describe
> > whatever it is that I do here. And by all means if this list is too
> > "slumbrous" for you, then, yes, you should leave. We would hate to think
> > we
> > were boring you.
> >
> > jd
> >
> >
> > --
> > Joseph Duemer
> > Professor of Humanities
> > Clarkson University
> > [sharpsand.net]
> >
>
>
>
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