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Pastimes : The Literary Sauna (or Tomes in Towels) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (397)	8/28/2001 11:36:41 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 466

I just listened to the play online. They made more of the postpartum situation than the actual story did. And did you notice the speech that John gave where he lists one of the causes of the "nervousness in modern civilization" as the "mental activity of women"? It is amazing to think that men saw us as so fundamentally different from them. As if our minds were somehow limited, incapable of reason, ruled by our emotions, an entirely different organ than the one they possess. We still see that attitude- although I think most men would deny it.

To: E who wrote (397)	8/28/2001 11:49:41 AM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 466

Also added in the drama- a doctor talking about the woman he treated - a pianist who lived for her music- and how he took it away from her- forbade her to play. A perfect comparison to Guaspari, whose life revolved around her art. I had a vocal coach who was the most incredible artist I've ever met- she understood music on some level I will never achieve and I've studied all my life. My diction teacher said of her, Most of us would be depressed, sad, directionless without our music, but we would go on. Kathleen is different; I don't think she could live if you took her voice from her. She would cease to exist.