Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 07:01:30 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?anna=20miller?= <ruboutthewords-AT-yahoo.co.in> Subject: Re: lrb reading cunt-- Dear est Cunt Alev would you mind showing us your verse instead of speaking of it. Show dont tell --- AlevAdil01-AT-aol.com wrote: > Re: reactions to my reactions to Marjorie Perloff > and her gardener, I suppose > it was meant to be an insult but i don't hate my > body so -Yeah I'm a cunt - > no problem . And salil there's something a little > patronising about your > response - I'm not trying to impose a uniform > reaction - it was the assertion > of a more 'real' experience that really offended me. > You seemed to me to be > clinging on to that illusion with your 'talking to > the people routine' - > hardly systematic, likely to be tautologous and you > have no way of knowing > whether Mary Beard, i or any one else has talked to > as many/more people. > Talking is good, calling people cunts - unless > specifically as a compliment > and asserting 'more real' realities is a little > unhinged. I'm a sorry if my > letter offended people - I'm no less moved than many > of the emotive postings > but fed up with the emotion fest. > > Alev Adil > (incidentally a poem of mine called Cunt is > published in Hungry for You ed. > Joan Smith published by Chatto and Windus so the > cunt thing really was fine > by me) > ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send a newsletter, share photos & files, conduct polls, organize chat events. Visit http://in.groups.yahoo.com --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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