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

To: epicure who wrote (59367)	9/21/2002 12:48:26 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

who knows what the person behind E was doing while the alias was at Beltane? I certainly don't. You know a lot about what I've been doing, and about my life, for the last few years. Much more than any of my neighbors do. More than most of my friends, though less than my three best friends. An interesting thing happened to me recently. This is about the way in which one's 3D Self is brought here, and also about the way what one has learned on SI is brought to one's 3D life. We have a couple of friends we met not long after college. Mainly, they're N's friends. I've never enjoyed our time with them very much because they patronize me intellectually in a way that's sort of humiliating. For example, once the woman said, "It's clear you and N get along very well and are happily married, but... but... what do you talk about?" When she had young children and I was teaching in a nursery school, she came over to me in the middle of a lively political discussion among other guests in her apartment, to which I was listening with interest, and said, "I haven't talked to you all evening. Shall we talk about children?" We are talking patronizing big time. It rendered me pretty silent when we were around them, though I'm not silent with other friends. Once I mentioned a book I'd just read by Nabokov, and she turned to me and asked, "What do you think of the theme of 'doubles' in that novel?" (She's an English Prof. I hadn't noticed any theme of doubles. I don't remember what I said, but it would have translated to Duh.) Since I've been on SI I haven't taken that sort of thing from her without pointing out what has just occurred any more. I realize that I may not be N, but I'm not a fool in the world, and don't have to be treated like one. It is shocking to them and has been liberating for me. Thank you, cyberworld, for the 3D therapy. Now I have to leave for the day.