[lit-ideas] Re: VERY VERY VERY GOOD NEWS
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 01:00:32 -0600
Irene:
Except I wasn't supporting you. I saw yet another instance of people
thinking insult means love, admiration, whatever.
But if an "insult" is said as an expression of love, Irene, it's not an
insult -- it's an expression of love. Love can be expressed in irony as
well as in any straight forward declaration. In fact, ironic expressions of
love can be a more highly charged, secret "love language". I don't mean to
suggest that Erin's joke was a "love language", but it does mean that she
thinks she knows me well enough to know she can tease me about my children's
"affectation" for bizarre names -- an affectation they got from me who named
them, a fact she's aware of. So it all gets more complicated than appears
on the surface where you seem to have made this judgment. Maybe you might
probe a little deeper before jumping to conclusions. It might save you some
Emily Litella moments. Just a suggestion.
If you weren't being supportive, then I don't really understand your
objection, though I suppose you could be sensitive to the whole question of
civility and posting, and urging us all to be more restrained. I would
support that -- most times. : ) And if that is the case, then let me
assure you that in this situation you're way off base. I found Erin's post
very funny, but then I know the world that gave it birth and where it was
meant to live as, I would guess, do most people on this list.
Life's not such a burden if you just lighten up.
Mike Geary
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