Posted by Toph on December 10, 2004, at 21:14:23
In reply to Re: Coat of Armor » Toph, posted by Atticus on December 10, 2004, at 19:39:06
Thanks Atticus, your complimentary remarks mean a lot. As for grammar, well, suffice it to say that my father used to correct my speech all the time so that I could get into a "proper school." I mastered adverbs, but as for the the rest, well, I thought a dangling participle meant ill-fitting underwear.
While I have your attention, you are probably aware that you are an enigmatic figure around here. There's your relentless effort to immasculate Bob. Many of us also slip into adolescent mode when it comes to assinine limitations of speech, emotion and critical discourse. Then there's your poetry (though I confess I read it selectively)which strikes me as raw realism, like a Sam Peckinpah film - graphic, but, unlike Peckinpah, not gratutitously so. Then there's the warm fuzzy Atticus who non-judgementally says really nice, encouraging things to other posters who express themselves (did I get that subject/verb thing right) using varying abilities of artistic sophistication. Let me say here that when you go on sabatical or visit the gulag I, for one, am a little less intimidated about posting here some lame attempt at creative expression. After all, you're a f*cking professor, for Christ's sake. Anyway, I wouldn't ask you what's behind these disperate personalities of yours because I assume you'd prefer to let your work speaks for you. It must be nice to have the ability to assemble words into an artificial but nonetheless human reality as you do so well, oh wait, isn't that what Bob does too?
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