File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2001/postcolonial.0110, message 375


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)
>  

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