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To: jbe who wrote (34710)	8/11/1999 5:34:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 71178

I am sure it was much better than you think it was. I hope it was anyway.

To: jbe who wrote (34710)	8/11/1999 6:05:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

If you won't take it amiss, I think you need a big hug. Maybe a group hug -- let's all join in.

To: jbe who wrote (34710)	8/11/1999 6:54:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I would bet that X is right, and you were wonderful, much better than you judge yourself, but I broke into a sympathetic sweat reading your post. I live a life of incomplete and run-on sentences. I am filled with admiration for anyone who can do what you did--- even with an ummm or a missing period. But here -- this is great iced tea, and the new fans are wonderful. Have a seat and no, I know nothing about Dagestan, so I will tell you a story about Ammo. He just came into the study and announced in a terrible voice, "John hung himself!" Scared the hell out of me. OUr next door neighbor is John. "What!" I screamed. "He couldn't take it and he hung himself." I'm leaping up from the computer, wondering if John was hanging from a tree outside, and where was Nancy, and should we cut him down? "Why did they make me read this book? I'm all depressed." "What?" You see? I really am not verbally very strong in real life. He holds out Brave New World. "I just finished it. John hung himself, and I'm not happy right now. It's the last day of vacation and I'm not happy. Why did they do that to me?" He goes into the living room and starts playing Moonlight Sonata mournfully. I'm sitting there thinking that he has three books to read for AP English and if he just finished Brave New World that means he has two left. And school starts tomorrow. The next book is THe Scarlet Letter, another cheerful little tale.

To: jbe who wrote (34710)	8/12/1999 2:45:00 PM
From: Thomas C. White	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Your recitation makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Eons ago, in college, I volunteered to be a classical DJ for the evening classical music program on the university radio station. And I swore up and down I was going to impress the bejeezus out of everyone. Wrote out all my notes and everything. And as the segue music faded, I turned on the microphone, ready to go into my spiel, and thought...omigod. There's ten thousand people out there listening to every word I say. Every stutter. Every bungled pronunciation. Every crack in my voice. And I froze. Completely and utterly. For fifteen seconds. Longest fifteen seconds of my life. The DJ who was doing sidesaddle training me finally flipped on a commercial with a sigh of forbearance. And then the commercial ended, and for some reason, I was completely fine after that.