From: "carole lindholm" <carole_lindholm-AT-ananzi.co.za>
Subject: Re: How it is
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:55:46 +0200


On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 04:49:17 -0500
 gvcarter-AT-purdue.edu wrote:
> 
> Steve,
> 
> Perhaps it's Waiting for Dogot after all.  I'm thinking
> here of that Great 
> Dane, Kierkegaard, who perhaps got mingled w/ earlier
> discussions regarding 
> Levinas, but who is different all the same. 
> 
> But as C says right after the line you've quoted:  "Why
> choose?"

Interesting. As a new member to the list, the only way I
can interpret this response to the message I sent about
Beckett is that it's sole purpose is to agree with Steve's
remarks.

Human groups of more than three people have a tendency,
apparently spontaneous, to split into two hostile
subgroups.

In an article "Sightseeing Tours: A Sociological Approach",
Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 23, pp. 213-227, Edmunds
and White discuss this phenomenon. In the first hours of a
group, one generally observes only "phatic sociability",
characterized by the use of standard phrases. The
establishment of micro-groups can be detected only after
the first excursion, sometimes the first communal meal.

Apparently my second message became the equivalent of the
first excursion or first communal meal.

Carole
 
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