File spoon-archives/sa-cyborgs.archive/sa-cyborgs_1997/sa-cyborgs.9709, message 3


Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 23:11:17 -0700
From: mbf <iview-AT-technologist.com>
Subject: Re: and so you signed my guestbook ...


Despair flees
  from a weighted heart
as wisdom unfolds
  one petal at a time
like the ivory lotus 
   at summer's end...

		-Manjusree Sen
		 September 3, 1997

PS -- Thanks for the inspiration, Radhika!!  ;-)

Cyberdiva wrote:
> 
> " you know that idid not like this medium this irresponsibleand seductive
> medium
>  where while hiding ican read your deepest thoughts and feelings like a
> passerby watching an
>  automobile accident victim bleed or a glutton eating while watching tV
> images of children in need
>  is it because i am outdated or is it because i understand you should i
> fight or have i already lost "
> 
> yes - i know you.
> (but is it the you i know/knew?)
> 
> and once again - as you did often
> with your questioning, piercing eyes
> you stir my discomfort
> 
> as you often did
> a child watching
> a presumptious teenager
> raving and ranting
> 
> her views on the world
> 
>         once again - though - it is this technology you hate
>         that allows you to insert
> your word
> 
>         into mine...
> 
> ambiguity
> 
> this is life.
> 
>         for many of us.
> 
>         we know that now - as grown women
> 
> we negotiate
> scream
> pontificate
> threaten
> lecture
> 
> whatever
> 
>         but we learn
>         we grow
> 
> and make each
> always
> uncomfortable
> 
> enough to think
> 
>                 i hope
> 
> to keep thinking
> 
>                 to win or lose is a point of view
>                 is not an individual decision
>                 often
> 
>         it is how the question is
>                 framed
> 
> i would rather take control and frame the situation
> my
> self
> 
> but i negotiate
> ....
> 
> perhaps...
> 
> but not helplessly so -
> 
> with power
> with strength
> 
> with deep concern...
> 
> _____________________________
> Radhika Gajjala
> TCOM
> (Multimedia and the Internet)
> 
> ______________________________
> http:/ernie.bgsu.edu/~radhik
> _______________________________

   

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