[lit-ideas] Re: Annie Proulx [antifreeze]
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 15:00:03 -0500
Robert, let's call a Christmas Truce, okay? I would really like that. I
had no idea what you intended to write. I replied to what you did write.
I thought you were implying that I was seriously disturbed because I have
thought about, among a lot of other things, death. Regarding animals, I
love animals. I don't even eat animals except that I now have to eat fish.
My heart breaks for those poor animals in N.O. and I do appreciate the
efforts of the volunteers. My impression, obviously wrong, was that like a
lot of people you like pets but the rest of the animal kingdom can be
damned. Obviously, I'm wrong. Obviously, you're a kind hearted man who
cares deeply about animals and probably the rest of this planet. I did
notice that that was the part of the post that resonated wtih you.
Regarding the original reference to dogs lapping up antifreeze, I didn't
write that and I would never write that. I got it off the proulx forum.
Now I too am done, and a Merry Christmas to you, a very kind person..
> [Original Message]
> From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 12/18/2005 2:23:33 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Annie Proulx [antifreeze]
>
> I somehow managed to send the first part of this before the message was
> finished. Here's the rest. (And now I'm done.)
>
> I'd written that seriously disturbed people poison dogs with antifreeze
> but that I wasn't going to give details about how this is done:
> Lit-Ideas posts are accessible on the Internet to anyone, listmember or
not.
>
> To which it was replied that 'Seriously disturbed people do a lot of
> things, like invade countries for no reason. Nobody's championing all
> those animals in New Orleans who were killed by poisonous water that
> resulted from lack of preparation. The glee in your words "seriously
> disturbed" invalidates [sic] any seriousness in them.'
>
> There have been tremendous efforts on the part of many organizations to
> rescue and house at least domestic animals. Your uninformed words are an
> insult to the volunteers on the scene and to the thousands who
> contributed equipment and funds to help with this.
>
> To be seriously disturbed is to be seriously disturbed. It is another
> way of saying, in this case, that someone is seriously deranged. That
> both of these expressions can be used flippantly in casual speech does
> not mean that they were used flippantly here. The only reason I replied
> to your original post about dogs lapping up antifreeze and then getting
> 'stomach aches,' was to say that dogs who lap up antifreeze get more
> than stomache aches. They die.
>
> Robert Paul
> Reed College
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