Marsha, my long reply is hung up still, but I realize I forgot to address this:
> Marsha: > And what is this little personal tirade about? Aren't you the one who > wrote "So again, it is one of those: I care, but I don't care." ??? [Tim] I think I wrote that - at least I wrote something very close to it. In the context I think the reverse order was okay; but, as excerpted, I would say that the 'care' should always come last - and the 'don't care' first. I'm pretty sure that was how I stated it the first time I broached this (and that you have properly excerpted from the second). And, to be sure, the don't care is a provincial 'don't care', but such provincialism is toward the SOM side of the spectrum; while the 'care' is a non-provincial 'care', up to which I strive to hold myself. Cynicism would be to cast off the 'care'. But I can't cast off the 'don't care', because that would be to relegate myself to subservience to the other (dmb was the object of the original); it would be to say that I can't get on properly if the other maintains a false impression of me. Whatever the other wants to make me to be is their bag, it won't bother me. Still, I think it would be *better* if they didn't distort me to absurdity. So I try, but failure won't hold (the provincial) me back. Tim -- [email protected] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
