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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (30763)	2/13/1999 4:29:00 PM
From: E	Respond to of 108807

<You don't know me at all.> Of course that's true, Christine. What I have done is to draw inferences based on what you have said here. I have tried, at least, to indicate, in detail and specifically, not by vague complaints, exactly what I feel are the contradictions among your expressed positions, and between your self-descriptions, which you have given here, and the contradictory positions which you have also given here. I did not at first have clear that you were, as you are, against the death penalty because of the injustices in its application. Your plan for resolving the injustices in the system to which you object, speeding up the process and having more limited appeals, does not seem to me to be responsive to my points. I think those points are important, or I wouldn't have taken the time to write them out. I do agree that this discussion is getting tedious, though. There's an interesting item in the New Republic that reminds me of our exchange. In an artbook recently published in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a painting by Edgar Degas is reproduced. Dancers Practicing at the Bar, is its title. From the NR: "Under the heading 'Spatial Organization,' the book gives a two-paragraph explanation of Degas's placement of the ballerinas: 'The two major forms are crowded into the upper right quadrant of the painting, leaving the rest of the canvas as openspace....' So far, everything seems normal. But... it is not. Upon closer inspection, there is something disturbingly wrong with the illustration accompanying this description, something that makes both the painting and the serious tone of its discussion absurdly unreal: the ballerinas, you see, have been airbrushed out. Instead, what meet the eye are an empty space, the floor, the blank wall, and the bar... the ballerinas have been censored." Christine, I feel as though you have airbrushed a painting of capital punishment, removing its reality, while proceeding as though the picture you present as your ideal has something to do with the subject named in its title. I appreciate that you share, with me, a strong drive to even the playing field and address the problem of the neglect and abuse that produces so much of our crime. This is not true of many advocates of the death penalty.