[lit-ideas] Re: Irene's experiment...
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:21:38 -0400
Ursula, with all due respect, I find this condescending and ridiculous.
No, I never ever smile or have fun or find anything funny or see beauty in
anything and never ever experience joy. Nothing ever shivers my timbers
and I have no sense of humor at all. I will take your advice and begin to
appreciate how wondrous the world is because the Iraqis are at this very
moment finding a glimpse of beauty in the hell we created for them. I will
begin to appreciate that nothing needs to be understood and no changes need
to be made except to bring on more of the same.
Now that that's settled, I need to get back to work and stop wasting my
time.
> [Original Message]
> From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 9/28/2006 2:52:28 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Irene's experiment...
>
> Maybe Irene is conducting a social experiment and we're the guinea
> pigs. She's seeing who she can push over a cliff first.
>
> Irene, Paul is presenting the other side of what Eric wrote. There's
> beauty everywhere, even in the smallest things. Even those wretched
> people in Baghdad still notice scents and sights that light their
> world. They're not hiding from reality when they love each other and
> dandle their kids on their knees or smile at the way the sheets on the
> line dance to the wind. They're preserving life.
>
> The ancient Sumerians, bemoaning the destruction of their cities, summed
> up the devastation by noting how the old men's eyes no longer followed
> the young girls on the street. That's the end of life. Until we're
> there, smile a little.
>
> Doesn't anything shiver your timbers?
>
> Ursula
>
>
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