>> Personally, I've been well conditioned by my father to expect nothing,
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>> since he has never listened to anything I've said.
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>Hmm. Me, it was my mother.
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Hi all,
Briefly adding to the morning's contributions from the female kind, and re:
Elizabeth and Alison's comments, - both my parents did and do listen to me,
which brings its own problems by making it very confusing for me to
encounter "authorities" who don't! At that point I always just back away,
not out of defeat but from lack of motive understanding I suppose. I was
never issued with the rule book of how to deal with stonewalling, but
alas...(recalling scene from "Deconstructing Harry" when Robin Williams
begins to feel invisible and goes out of focus, whereafter his family need
corrective spectacles in order to see him).
Anne wrote:
>Good God, why not celebrate the richness of the list? We've had
"mainstream", Yugoslavia,
>Australia as both straw in the wind and example of late capitalism at its
most rancid, the sheet as
>contaminant, how letterpress acts as a refining agent, the ethics of
participation in mass markets,
>the academy, and life; gender issues; identity politics...that's one
helluva party. I don't say
>this lightly.
And I couldn't agree more. Sometimes when a diversity of voices converge on
a theme here I find it helps me to keep me fired as I sit and work through
the day, and the more voices, the more passionate the topic, the clearer by
far participants characters are painted. That's a richness to partake of.
Tout
Love to all
Helen
P.S.: Big hello to Polly
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