VLVL(6) "conditionally become Frenesi"

MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu
Wed Dec 9 17:36:46 CST 1998


K-Dude, You missed my subtle qualifier "if"--
never trust the snake to slither straight.  In fact, I agree completely
both that my socks need some darn improvement and that one
should never venture slippery speculations along such sloops.

The full sentence runs:

 If I wasn't as suspicious of
"pychological" approaches to literature as I am to
"biographical" approaches, I'd venture th

>> I'd venture the idea that the scene Doug evokes reveals more about him than it does 
>about P.'s
>> theories of reading. 

johnny herpetonymously
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>Geez, Snake. I just don't know how much we can discern about a poster's
>nature from his or her posts. It always gets me into trouble when I start
>psychologizing P-List offerings and think that what is said here reveals
>something about this group of hidden posters. What we think about others is
>so often a mere projection of our own natures. And you, you are one quite
>handsome, young-at-heart, virile, and brilliant man....I can tell. I am a
>bit put off by your socks, though.
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