Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 14:23:15 -0400 (AST) From: Stacey Maxine Armstrong <armstrsm-AT-is2.dal.ca> Subject: Re: your dream Ariosto, I dont have much time to give to you typing today and as a scary sort of gift (it feels sacrificial to me), I will tell you what I have to do so you can decide how hard to slam your breaks. If you havent already figured out, I am doing an MA in English here in Halifax. I decided to take their offer of pitable income to allow myself the luxury of reading for a year. I am teaching a class today on Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_. Then I have to read some Romantic Women Poet's and right two responses to paper proposal's that I just picked up from my Mailbox. My computer broke on the weekend and I have to get it shipped somewhere in Ontario. (here is the text of boredom/bliss: the laundry and the bills) The writing/reading of your dream illicited so many contrary responses in me that I fractured. Do you know the equation for calculating the fracture point of a steel bar? Intuitively, perhaps? My immediate reaction was to think that you were lying, testing to see how far i would/could pretend. My life has not been completely empty of players. Then I read it sincerely and wondered crazily what a dream only based on what i had written and then what you read could possibly be like. Always the this dilemna with words. I have shifting notions of obligations and gifts as I have been attempting to explore with you on this list. Rarely has anyone made me believe that they were taking me seriously. I have been told this is because I am *too* cute and ofcourse that I have the delightful habit of ending all statements that I make by raising my voice ie. they turn into questions, making me seem ritualistically uncertain. (not untrue actually but not that helpful for small talk, which by the way I am absolutely horrible at.) I have to go teach now. My lecture is on the gothic. How the familiar can often times lead to sights of shifting horror. (Do you think you inspired this particular gift of a lecture?) Can this be anymore less elliptical? I have been reading and writing to you all day. stacey
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