Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 17:52:32 -0400
From: "steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk" <steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk>
Subject: Re: love and difference - feeling, reacting


laughs - would like to think so - but really how can anyone respect 
inheritence like this...

s

hbone wrote:

>Steve/Geof/All,
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Women on the List may feel and express difference(s)  from what we males
>have written.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>And finally, the basis of a dream or vision of a better society.
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>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...
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