[lit-ideas] Re: True Confessions

  • From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 09:51:21 -0500

You guys are great.

Andy


> [Original Message]
> From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 12/7/2005 9:47:40 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: True Confessions
>
> I suppose we'll all have to unmask now.
> I wonder who Mike really is...
> Ursula (or maybe not...)
>
> Andy Amago wrote:
>
> > It's clear that most people by now (specifically Mike, Eric, Julie, 
> > probably Robert Paul and no doubt most others) have guessed that Andy 
> > is very in touch with his feminine side. Yes, he is very in touch. So 
> > much so that one might think Andy is either gay, or perhaps even a 
> > female. And one would be right. Although Andy is not gay, he is in 
> > fact a female. Andy is, in fact, Irene Cassidy of phil lit days. But 
> > you all know this. Andy was created because Irene for whatever reason 
> > couldn't get on the list following the demise of phil lit. After a 
> > long time of being off the list I made the decision to get back on. 
> > However, I was afraid that I?d have problems again, so I invented the 
> > pseudonym and here I am. In fact, if I hadn't had the problems, it 
> > would never have occurred to me to create a pseudonym. I know Larry 
> > Kramer has known for a long time because I accidentally sent him an 
> > email that was intended for my husband. I thought for sure he would 
> > throw me off and I waited with baited breath but instead Larry was 
> > gracious enough not to say anything and I thank him.
> >
> > I want to say that everything Andy has said, done and thought is real 
> > out of my life. His physical persona and age are modeled on my husband 
> > (except Andy doesn't play racquetball; Andy also is divorced which of 
> > course I'm not). I even did copywriting back in the 80's. All of 
> > Andy's opinions have been Irene's opinions. Over time Andy even 
> > persuaded Irene of some things. War genes, for example. There is 
> > something inherently primate-like in humans that keeps us fighting 
> > forever. Irene persuaded Andy, however, that war genes are expressed 
> > due to the anxiety and insecurity that comes from bad parenting. (War 
> > can be eliminated in a couple of generations yes, yes it can.) 
> > Likewise, Andy's house is my house and so on and so on.
> >
> > I have to admit that I liked being Andy. Guys do have it easier in 
> > some ways. I liked not having to be nice. I can see why Maryanne Evans 
> > and Aurore Dupin took pseudonyms.
> >
> > I can offer the same sort of apology that Zero Mostel offers at the 
> > end of The Producers. I do apologize for misleading people, but at the 
> > same time, nobody was hurt by it. And like I said, it was done 
> > perforce. It was interesting to learn too that nobody remembered the 
> > real Irene. I was the only person on the list both fluent and literate 
> > in Russian, yet when Julie inquired who on the former list used to 
> > read Russian, only Walter's name was offered. I was both surprised and 
> > not surprised.
> >
> > At any rate, for what it's worth I might even send pictures if I can 
> > figure out how to do it and if Andy's husband wants to be bothered 
> > uploading them.
> >
> > Andy/Irene
> >
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