Sorry for the delay -- I just came from Pittsburgh.
I hope your blue feeling is over by now. If not, I can offer old Chinese
saying that sounds (from my translation from Russian) something like that,
"Enjoy sorrow because it leads to happiness. Beware joy because it leads to
misery."
It seems to me that Russian actor who rebelled his teacher Stanislavsky was
Vsevolod Meyerhold. Meyerhold started his own theater and became a very
famous director. He was murdered by Stalin's order.
Eugene
PS I just learn that I am disconnected from xmca list because somehow my
email account generated messages when I was out (with my laptop), thanks to
computer Dr. Evil. So, send message directly to me.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Judy Diamondstone [mailto:diamonju@rci.rutgers.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 8:29 PM
> To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu
> Subject: the world
>
>
> Folks, I'm feeling very blue. So from out of the blue, here am I...
>
> Here is where I found the space to re-imagine my selves & all the
> variegated
> objectivities of this world when all around me felt strange, my first year
> of academia, and here is where I turn now....
>
> to feel kinship [an aside to several conference buddies: speaking
> positively]
>
> I want to say : REALISM CORRUPTS!
> (and absolute realism does so absolutely!)
>
> And now I'm going to tell a story. Some stories we have on tape,
> metaphorically speaking - in our heads; rich in associative
> value, they mean
> differently every replay. I've taken quite a few of these from
> Bateson, this
> one about his time in Palo Alto with Smithy, a schizophrenic (I have more
> than one Smithy story!). This one concerns the dilemma Bateson
> felt when one
> day Smithy turned to him and -- speaking prose to B. for the first time --
> said,
>
> "Bateson, You want me to come and live in your world. Well, I _lived_ in
> your world for 16 [??] years, and I - didn't - like it!"
>
> -- which distressed B., who then turned to his elderly German colleague
> Frieda Fromm-Reichman and asked her how she would have answered,
> and Frieda
> said [in German accent],
>
> "Well, I once had a patient who said something just like that to me. And I
> said to her, 'I never promised you a rose garden.'
>
> That patient recovered to write the book by that name.
>
> The point is that it is the key to recovery, to harness the imagination to
> the project of planting a few rose bushes....
>
> which reminds me of another story....
>
> but that's for another time. thanks for virtually being there, y'all
>
> p.s.
>
> Does anyone know the name of Stanislavsky's student who rebelled
> against his
> mentor's method and taught that if you want to feel, then do? -- i.e., if
> you want to feel joy, then laugh!
>
> judy
>
>
>
>
> Judith Diamondstone (732) 932-7496 Ext. 352
> Graduate School of Education
> Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
> 10 Seminary Place
> New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1183
>
> Eternity is in love with the productions of time - Wm Blake
>