Paul-- I did not interpret the initial, eva, mary, exchange the way
you did with respect to negative affect. But I did notice a kind
of boundary crossing between personal and professional and thought
to myself, "bluring ought to make conversation easier". Wow, was
I (apparently) wrong!
I, in particular, did interpret Eva as overstepping any boundary
between a person we can turn to for remembering things we have
mostly forgotten. Nor did I interpret Nate in that way in his
note digging back into the archive. Memory is always occasioned
(thanks xmca-ites middleton and edwards!) and comments on the
occasioning seem fair enough. But not to the point of getting
mad at others, at least in this case.
Other boundaries between the personal and professional
are also at play here and they too can be the cause of
friction.
Puts downs simply don't work on xmca to create anything
that feels like development to me. No matter who is
involved.
mike
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Feb 01 2000 - 01:03:23 PST