Dear recent conversationalists,
This is a list discussion. You are having one. Isn't it strange to only
join in to complain, though? I'm not being hostile by asking this, simply
preferring to encourage constructive intervention. I've never met most of
the people on this list, and some I've met since exhanging with them here.
I post readings in Cambridge because I'm living here at the moment and
have also posted readings in Glasgow. In some senses, you just do it.
The pub analogy isn't quite the same, I think, since one of the
interesting things about the list is that a five-foot woman doesn't have
to pry apart four large males with all their weight on the bar just to
tell them she thinks they're talking rubbish. The recent reaction to Mr.
Mackintosh's posting was prompted as far as I can see by his equivalent of
jumping into a conversation talking about himself through a megaphone and
then immediately accusing those he had interrupted of not knowing how to
have a conversation. Social skills may not have been perfected by the
interrupted, but specific lacunae can be and usually have been
questioned. If you're afraid to join in on the list, by the
way, you can always pretend to be someone else for a while; in fact the
superlatives of Mr. M made me wonder if this was what was happening.
Fiona (maybe)
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