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To: E who wrote (41882)	11/16/1999 7:48:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Meeting would be wonderful. I am willing to travel. I think that we were unable to get everyone together due to the fact that we live all over the country, and there were factors like Gaugie's hip surgery, and Lather's wife expecting and stuff. But maybe we could do something with fewer people, a regional thing.

To: E who wrote (41882)	11/16/1999 12:12:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

> I ask, "Is the idea of an 'espistolary' relationship incomprehensible to you?",< Joo wanna see my espistols, Señora? <cackling>

To: E who wrote (41882)	11/16/1999 1:21:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

Not in my dictionary! Incredible! We bowst before ye. To your interesting point, I think what's ~ maybe even shocking, for me ~ is that I am finding my E frinds more real than 3d people. Absolutely. I mean, definitely. As though the character, for me the real of people, is more visible on S.I. et al, than in the punky wooden bodies floating around "real" space. And I think this is happening to a lot of people. And we're a teentsy frightened by it. It's very "new", historically. Socially. Also, if women are gorgeous, you can still have a chance to be smart. And slobby. Less air pollution, too. I haven't combed my hair today. But see how cute I am? Yah. I'd rather hang out here, in Deep and Clear and Interesting Land, than anywhere else. Everybody is right here, too. Real close by. See how hard it is to get our sewing circle together in 3D? Into a Salon? And this happens DAILY. Without transportation. It's really big. Expansive. Close. Fun. Important. Familial. Substantial. Satisfying. Varied. Interesting. Funny. Spontaneous. Interwoven. Articulated. Literary. Lively. And people who SCOFF at the TRUTH of "cyber-borg-space" being SUBSTANTIAL, can bite my electron. Weinies. Whimpering weinies.

To: E who wrote (41882)	11/16/1999 1:37:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I have had the experience of talking about my SI friends with 3D friends, and having some (not all) of them look very suspicious and disdainful, and say things like that it was incomprehensible to them how anyone could be friends with someone whom they didn't know in real life, didn't even know what they looked like, etc., and that it was simply "fantasy," not "real," etcetera. I've had the same weird reactions. I have to explain that unless one has experienced the potential warmth and intensity of these relationships, one is very foolish to dismiss them out of hand. One of the problems, I think, is that so few people today have ever enjoyed an 'espistolary' relationship themselves, despite the literary precedent, so they really cannot imagine in more than a distant sort of way. BTW, I really like the idea of a get-together if it can be arranged. Meanwhile, do you expect to be in NYC any time soon?

To: E who wrote (41882)	11/16/1999 10:57:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Respond to of 71178

I hate it when people disappear, too. Yeah. Where the hell is Jeff Nolder, anyway? Is it molting season for blue crabs, or what?