Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 21:07:26 +1100 From: hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net> 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, > > > >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 > > > > > > . > > > > > > > >I > > > > > > > > > >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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