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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (57079)	9/6/2002 7:06:35 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

ARGH- do you too believe the person is the post and the post is the person. No. The person is a real person existing in 3D. The poster is a construct constructed by the real person, but may have a great deal or may have virtually nothing in common with the 3D person. When a talk of the town writer writes "we went down to Battery Park yesterday . . ." who if anybody actually went down to Battery Park? When I wrote on Beltane "I am holding your hand and leading you shyly over to the mossy patch" was I actually taking anybody's hand? An I actually a shy person? Did the person I was writing to actually believe that we were going to have a physical romantic relationship? If they had met the 3D me is it likely that they would have come to the glade in the moonlight wearing only a diaphanous gown and wandered over to the mossy patch with me? Did The Arteeste actually paint anything of value? Is the 3D person who called himself The Arteeste actually artistic? Or can't he draw worth a lick? It's very hard for me to understand how Solon, who at one time I thought was reasonably intelligent, could not grasp this simple principle of the complete disconnect between the alias and the 3D person creating the alias.

To: epicure who wrote (57079)	9/6/2002 8:59:26 PM
From: maried.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I HAVE A CONFESSION TO MAKE! Just to put a little clarity in this conversation of post vs person. The entity that is typing these words is a real person. I assume that anyone reading this post is also a real person...but I might already be mistaken in that assumption. Maried. does not exist. She is not the wife of J.C. Dithers. He is still married to Cora although he may be fooling around with Cookie. He made some moves on Blondie but she's almost as wacky as Dagwood and he got scared off from his possible encounter with her excessive giggling. Now poor old J. C. Dithers is not only relegated to being a two dimensional comic but a fading comic, at best. Maried. only came about because the rest of you folks took the good names. I really wanted Yogi, Fred Flintstone or Bambi! I even tried an X,Y, or Z! I wish that I had been clever enough to try a movie title like Mulholland Drive! Maybe I'll change my name to Mrs. Peel since that one seems available again? So, poor little maried. will just wait for the right opportunity to change her identity...maybe I'll be "Artist"?, "Bard"? or "Muse"? For now, maried.