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To: Dayuhan who wrote (25791)11/3/1998 11:10:00 PM
From: George S. Montgomery  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
Steve, I appreciate your response and am especially glad that we have not flipped off the communications track...

There is one matter that I would like to challenge you on, and another which I believe we can well call moot:

1) "Should we accept? I'm no expert, but I understand from casual reading that people who resist disease are far more likely to recover."

How about I say that 'fretting' is not fighting, but giving in to? And that ignoring is, in a sense, denying, and thus resisting the presence of?

2) "Yes. But what about what you will be?"

If the tense of existence is "am" - not "was," "is," and "will be" - isn't a discussion on this sort of temporal platform sort of put on the shelf? (We do run on different currents, don't we?)

There is such a handful of sweethearts on this thread, it gives me goosebumps to be even remotely connected with. As I was told after a creative writing seminar in college, when I said to a classmate, at a 3.2% beer house, "I guess I'm pretty cynical...", "Cynical my ass(!), you're a sentimental idealist!" Some of the deep shit, the depth and honesty, of a lot of you guys, even Alex, who mystifies me quite often, hits me deeply and sentimentally.

With respect (again), geo