[lit-ideas] Re: more cell phone spottings
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:07:14 +0000
Saturday, November 19, 2005, 7:01:29 PM, Eric Yost wrote:
EY> Judy: Alienation from some environments makes sense.
EY> EY: Think how much is lost by this.
I said *some* environments.
EY> Not just for women but for
EY> men too. So many chances to know people and one's environment
EY> more fully, so many chances to love more fully, all reigned in by
EY> habitual fear. Whether justified or not. Maybe all it takes is
EY> one bad experience to set oneself against the world. But what a
EY> trade-off!
EY> On the other hand, I think of all the female slam poets,
EY> musicians, and artists I used to know in the East Village ...
EY> whether in company or alone, gallivanting around town at all
EY> hours of the night, singing as they walked from the Nuyorican
EY> Poet's Cafe on Avenue C at three o'clock in the morning--junkies
EY> lounging on benches in Tompkins Square Park, drunks collapsed on
EY> stoops--and these women oblivious to all that they should have
EY> been more afraid of...if they should have been more afraid.
--
Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
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