Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 17:41:33 +1100
From: hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net>
Subject: Re: love and difference - feeling, reacting


Steve/Geof/All,

The Queen, and all the rest us us, like yourself and other readers of the
pomo-French and neo-Marxists persuasions, has IMHO, known love and grief.

Like us, I would assume she chooses words, of speechwriters or anyone else,
which resonate with her own experience in loving and losing, in grieving,
sharing and attempting to console those who mourn.

I think everyone is entitled to their own emotions, even if they have lead
the sheltered lives of  royalty.  The Queen, being older than most of us,
has likely experienced more love and grief.

Women on the List may feel and express difference(s)  from what we males
have written.

I wouldn't despise the words of a professional writer, Shakespeare, for
example, or a chair-holding philosopher just  because they have more
advantages, more money, more fame and attention than you or I.

All of us are sovereigns of our own feelings, loves and griefs. Others have
only secondhand knowledge gleaned through our words and other languages of
the senses and the arts.

I think first-person feelings/emotions are the basis of  what Lyotard called
the "social bond" and that bonding and loving is the basis of  community and
humanity.

And finally, the basis of a dream or vision of a better society.

regards,
Hugh


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It wasn't the queen of england - but a professional writer - she is
merely a rather sad actor who has been constructed to repeat words and
feelings...