The 'I' of the poem is speculating/projecting some other path that could have been taken? Some other life?
I can easily read it that way but I don't think it would have occurred to me spontaneously (difficult to know now if that was careless reading on my part). I never got as far as thinking about the relationship between the 'he' and the 'I' as anything other than an office friendship. Thank you again. I haven't had much time to engage with petc lately so it was good to have your poem appear just as I am finding a little more time to pay attention.
Tina
-------------------------------------------------------------- [log in to unmask] http://www.fatmandancing.co.uk http://www.myspace.com/fat_man_dancing > Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 08:37:22 -0500> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: "You the Man"> To: [log in to unmask]> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tina Bass" <[log in to unmask]>> To: <[log in to unmask]>> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 7:50 AM> Subject: Re: "You the Man"> > > > > I really enjoyed 'The Office' (UK version) and this seems to foreground the > bits that 'The Office' could only lightly touch upon. The half-lived lives, > the frustrations, the compromises, the failure to connect with people that > you spend so many hours with.> > Thank you for this.> > > > Thanks, Tina!!> > I wanted that as background - it's a world I remember well - but there's > something else going on here. There may not be two people present, but one > plus a projection or creation, or a kind of doppelgaenger.
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