Re: internal-recursivity

Phillip Allen White (pwhite who-is-at carbon.cudenver.edu)
Sun, 22 Feb 1998 19:43:15 -0700 (MST)

diane, thank you so very much ...

On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, diane celia hodges wrote:
> no need to apologize; I'm partial myself to neophraseology.

and, in explanation of your coining new terms you demonstrated a narrative
bit of self reflection ....

> so i made one up too: internal-recursivity. :-)
> that is, for example, ... well. Take me...please. no, no:

playfully, as I remember you usally doing ..... and then wrote
about yourself openly, trustingly, critically (as a critique) ..... and
in so doing provided for me a model for a paper I have just begun for a
class in adult development ..... in which I have decided to transcribe
my letters from the 60's and journal entries from the 70's as well as the
80's and 90's, in order to analyze then the transcriptions using several
qualitative analytic tools - and my instructor asked me about how honest
I could be - and I considered as one model the journals of Ned Rorem -
and now, I can consider as another model what you have just written about
your issues of anger and authority and father and and and and .....

So, thank you. I've been deeply touched as well as emboldened by
your honesty.

phillip